Quotes and Sayings About Our Society
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Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion
-- Aamir Khan -
Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come to see it and hear their reactions, you realize that it is such a prevalent part of life and our society today that it really needed to be told, and still needs to be told.
-- Aaron Tveit -
Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future?
-- Aharon Katzir -
There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
-- Alan AtKissonSource : Alan AtKisson (2012). “Believing Cassandra: How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World”, p.197, Routledge
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
-- Alan Watts -
What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
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If they [women] are to be integrated more fully into our society than has been the case so far, changes in individual attitudes of both men and women, adjustments in the labor market, and action by public authorities, will all be necessary.
-- Alva MyrdalSource : Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.154, Psychology Press
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The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.
-- Andrew Goodman -
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
-- Andrzej Wajda -
We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task,
-- Angela Merkel -
Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.
-- Anna Maria ChavezSource : "Confronting Cyber Violence in the Digital Age" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.
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Activism has been very productive in our society.
-- Anthony S. FauciSource : "U.S. Rep Hooted Off AIDS Stage" by Jordan Lite, www.wired.com. July 9, 2002.
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It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.
-- Arianna Huffington -
But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
-- Arlen SpecterSource : "Inside Politics" with Candy Crowley, edition.cnn.com. March 14, 2005.
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There is no higher value in our society than integrity.
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I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
-- Atom Egoyan -
To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
-- Barbara DemingSource : Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”
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The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
-- Barbara EhrenreichSource : Barbara Ehrenreich (2010). “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”, p.221, Macmillan
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The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.
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No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.
-- Bill McKibbenSource : Bill McKibben (2008). “The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life”, p.171, Macmillan
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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
-- Bill Nye -
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I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.
-- Billy Crudup -
I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
-- Billy Graham -
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
-- Billy Graham -
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
-- Billy Graham -
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We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
-- Blanche Lincoln -
As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.
-- Bobby Jindal