Our Society Quotes - Page 9

• Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Men, Iron

  "More Tips for Novelists". "Chicago Tribune" Newspaper, May 2, 1926.

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• I think it's such utter hypocrisy that so many people in our society were obviously all watching pornography and yet we treat these people [actors] like they're sub-human. I think it's just disgusting.

  Steve Grand

  Thinking, Hypocrisy, People

  Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. March 23, 2015.

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• I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we our given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more. Sometimes it doesn't, and we just continue these cycles.

  Alice Englert

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  Source: collider.com

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• Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money.

  David Limbaugh

  Government, People, Addiction

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• I can officially state that my government and myself believe that all over Europe we need to open a debate on the 'drug question' in order to create more coherent and human policies with better perspectives. . . . The policy of criminalizing consumers has failed, creating many problems to our society.

  George Papandreou

  Believe, Government, Order

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• In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

  Albert Camus

  Mother, Men, Funeral

  "What is it about Albert Camus' The Outsider that makes it such an enduring favourite with men?" by Marcel Berlins, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2006.

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• We all have a large stake in preserving our democracy, but I maintain that those without power in our society, the black, the brown, the poor of all colors, have the largest stake not because we have the most to lose, but because we have worked the hardest, and given the most, for what we have achieved.

  Charles Rangel

  Color, Black, Democracy

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• Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the western world uses its freedom continually to show all that is worst in our society, while the centrally controlled television of the Communist world and the dictatorships show only what is judged advantageous to them and suppress everything else, how are the uncommitted to judge between us? How can they fail to misjudge if they view matters only through a distorted mirror?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mirrors, Views, Judging

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• In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

  Guy Debord

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• Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

  Michel Foucault

  Surveillance

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• One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

  Roy Hattersley

  Thinking, Punishment, Prevention

  Roy Hattersley's remarks at the House of Commons debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. December 17, 1990.

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• I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

  Keira Knightley

  Photography, Thinking, Different

  "Keira Knightley Protests Photoshop: ‘I Think Women’s Bodies Are A Battleground’" by Lauren Zupkus, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 6, 2014.

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• Politically correct enforcement that`s out there in our society has tightened things down to the point where people just walk on eggshells and they are afraid to address things that are really on their mind.

  Ted Cruz

  People, Mind, Enforcement

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.

  Elif Safak

  Grief, People, Silence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Coward is the most misused word in our society.

  Doug Stanhope

  Society, Coward, Misused Words

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our society in futile attempts to achieve this security.

  Bruce Schneier

  Sacrifice, Technology, People

  "Our Newfound Fear of Risk". www.schneier.com. September 3, 2013.

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• Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

  Bruce Schneier

  Lying, Law, Insecurity

  "NSA secrets kill our trust" by Bruce Schneier, www.cnn.com. July 31, 2013.

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• In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

  Rodger Kamenetz

  Reality, Nuts, Vision

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• It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Thinking, Facts

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• Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

  Alfredo Jaar

  Blind, Lost, Imagery

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• We discussed relationships, abuse, divorce and more. In our society, women have no outlet for these things. The only outlet is the church. And the church can't handle everything. I saw a gap.

  Mo Abudu

  Divorce, Abuse, Church

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

  Liberace

  People, Waiting, Care

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• Guns are far too accessible and too readily available. There are over 200 million guns in our society - and that's just the legal ones, the ones we know about. Every ten seconds, another gun is produced. And every fourteen minutes, some person in America dies from gun-inflicted action.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Gun, America, Action

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in the eye. It seems to me that if we look back at mediaeval culture, for example, we see a society which faces the reality of death and pain and limitation, because it has to. Our society, which is progressive and technological and seems to have a slightly fanatical utopian edge to it, gets very uncomfortable when anybody highlights the dark side of humanity, or the world we have built, or what we are doing to the rest of life on Earth.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Pain, Eye, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

  David Simon

  Running, Cities, Ideas

  Source: progressive.org

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