“As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.”
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“We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.”
“The role of art in society differs for every artist.”
“Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.”
“You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.”
“A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.”
“Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.”
“What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.”
“In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.”
“Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.”
“The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.”
“But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.”
“Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.”
“Our whole society is instantaneous.”
“Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.”
“I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.”
“I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.”
“I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.”
“We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.”
“We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.”
“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.”
“In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.”
“There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.”
“But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.”