“We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.”
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“The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.”
“The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.”
“Sports are a microcosm of society.”
“Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.”
“Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.”
“One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.”
“Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.”
“Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system, the society.”
“When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.”
“It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.”
“It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.”
“How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.”
“Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.”
“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.”
“Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.”
“There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.”
“Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.”
“Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.”
“Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.”
“The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.”
“Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.”
“In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.”
“There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society.”