952 private quotes tagged society

“The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are this is where we came from and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.” — J. Michael Straczynski

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“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.” — Louis Althusser

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“It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.” — Jessica Simpson

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“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.” — Thomas Frank

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“I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.” — Sienna Miller

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“A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.” — Rand Paul

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“The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.” — Charles Horton Cooley

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“Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.” — Susan Sontag

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“When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.” — H. Rap Brown

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“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.” — Baldwin Spencer

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“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.” — Dennis Prager

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“Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.” — Sebastian Junger

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“We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.” — Thomas Frank

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“It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.” — Ron Lewis

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“I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.” — Anne Lamott

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“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.” — A. N. Wilson

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“I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.” — Ma Jian

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“It's upsetting to be a man in our society.” — David Mamet

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“Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.” — Shirley Chisholm

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“The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.” — Orson Welles

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“The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.” — W. H. Auden

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“Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.” — J. B. Priestley

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“But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.” — Tom Hanks

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“Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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