Our Society Quotes - Page 6

• Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Education, Mother, Teacher

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Believe, Boys

  Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand

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• Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in
  themselves.

  Erich Fromm

  Running, People, Suggestions

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.119, A&C Black

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• In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.

  Margaret Mead

  Simple, May, Different

  Margaret Mead (1962). “Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education”

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• Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.

  Caroline Criado-Perez

  Men, Different, Needs

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• The core principle is that we want an economy that works for everyone, not just for a small elite. We want equal opportunity, not equality of outcome. We want to make sure that there's upward mobility again, in our society and in our economy.

  Robert Reich

  Opportunity, Upward Mobility, Principles

  "Inequality for All". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. September 20, 2013.

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• And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, World, Misery

  Second Public Talk at Ojai, May 21, 1944.

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• Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

  Vanna Bonta

  Mean, Ability

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• In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

  Clarence Thomas

  Change, Religious, Decision

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• Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Fate, Rivers, Water

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• As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New Financial Order, Robert Shiller joins this proud tradition by directing his brilliant economic skills toward the creation of financial institutions designed to reduce the risks an unknown future visits on most members of our society and others. Shiller's imaginative and compelling analysis will appeal to all readers who share his passion for initiating not only a richer, but a better, century.

  Peter L. Bernstein

  Passion, Past, Order

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• The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.

  Hari Sreenivasan

  Cities, Population, World

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• I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

  George Soros

  Successful, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're seen as sexy and beautiful, or some version of that, or you're put into another category... The latter category affords women the opportunity to be smart, funny, independent, mean, strong, intelligent and opinionated. We take them seriously as politicians, if they fit into that latter category. We respect their opinions more and give them higher expectations. That latter category is what allows female actors to be characters.

  Amber Heard

  Beautiful, Sexy, Strong

  "Amber Heard THE RUM DIARY Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• At the end of the day, I think there is an important moment happening in our society right, and I have to do the right thing. At the end of the day, I don't label myself one way or another. I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label. I've dated men in the past, and now I'm dating a woman, and I see it as ultimately no big deal.

  Amber Heard

  Past, Men, Thinking

  "Amber Heard Interview THE PLAYBOY CLUB". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 24, 2011.

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• I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut reaction to that and that gut reaction usually becomes the title of the book.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Titles, Looks

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• I believe that a lot of people in our society today, people who have been hurt and even people who haven't been hurt, get their worth and value from what they do, what they look like, what they own, what kind of job they have, what kind of house they live in, how much money they have, what social circles they're in, what level of education they have, especially even how other people respond to them. They feel better about themselves if everybody is giving a smiling nod to the way they look and all their choices.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hurt, Jobs, Believe

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their lives matter - self-centered means of numbing the questions of mattering. Culture has relapsed back into the self-aggrandizing, glorifying answers that the Athenians had presumed, which had Socrates railing against them until he got so annoying that they killed him.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Fall, Mean, Self

  "Interview With Rebecca Goldstein on Plato at the Googleplex, Philosophy for the Public, and Everything". Interview with Ophelia Benson, www.butterfliesandwheels.org. March 20, 2014.

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• We're at a period where our society is at the end of a cycle, where all the sudden the values that we were told were important don't seem to have that much importance nowadays.

  Jean-Marc Barr

  Important, Ends, Periods

  Source: collider.com

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• If someone can produce the law that keeps guns out of the hands of criminals but protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess them, and doesn't infringe on those rights, I would consider that. But all the proposals I've seen do not achieve that goal. And we are missing a golden opportunity to have an important debate about violence in the USA. Violence in our society is the problem.

  Marco Rubio

  Gun, Opportunity, Hands

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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• There's only winning and losing, and in our society, as in all societies, there's the person that's doing the winning, or there's the person that's facilitating the winning.

  Katt Williams

  Winning, Losing, Persons

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• We must honor our worthiness in order to receive what we want. In our society we are conditioned to believe that we are not worthy, and that it is even selfish to want to be able to attract things into our lives.

  Wayne Dyer

  Selfish, Believe, Order

  "Become A Mighty Manifester An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.

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• I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

  George Lucas

  Emotion, Mature, Rational

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Alcohol, Ingredients

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