Our Society Quotes - Page 16

• The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented. If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it.

  Ted Leo

  Loss, Desire, Identity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan Collini's phrase, "public moralists" and politicians, plutocrats, bankers, arms dealers, and experts and technocrats were not solely defining the moral norms as well as the political lives of our societies. We do have some writers claiming to be public moralists, but, as I said, they have actually been more jingoistic than even the henchmen of Bush and Blair.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Political, Bankers, Experts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

  Abdallah II

  Zero, Thinking, People

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• The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

  Marina Abramovic

  Spiritual, Needs, Losing

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• Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

  David Attenborough

  Real, Economics, Individual

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• As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

  Joe Baca

  Impact, Hands, Catholic

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• Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Religious, Philosophical, Ideas

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• You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

  John Perry Barlow

  Order, Culture, Ethics

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• We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

  Joe Biden

  Fire, Idealism And Realism, Idealism

  "Biden Joins Campaign for the Presidency" by E. J. Dionne Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1987.

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• Everything in our society is so purposeful.

  Sara Blakely

  "Smooth Moves". Interview with Alexandra Jacobs, www.newyorker.com. Mrch 28, 2011.

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• I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

  Sara Blakely

  Thinking, Joy

  "Smooth Moves" by Alexandra Jacobs, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Community, Important, Benches

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• My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Patriotic, Skills

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

  Raymond Chandler

  Television, Bucks, Standards

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• Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Bullying, Suffering, Silent

  "Confronting Cyber Violence in the Digital Age" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Skirts, Losing, Talent

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Take Root Media

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• All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Men, Hard Times

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• Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

  Chili Davis

  Long, Sportsmanship, Succeed

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• As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

  Jim DeMint

  Government, People, Reform

  "DeMint Weighs In". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. January 19, 2012.

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• But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Our Generation, White, People

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• Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

  Tipper Gore

  Strong Women, Self, Suffering

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

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• I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

  Billy Graham

  Believe, Home, Foundation

  "Evangelist Billy Graham backs marriage amendment" by Chris Dyches, www.wbtv.com.

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• Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

  Alex Haley

  Unique Characteristics, Racism, Racist

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• Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Law, Capitalism, Effects

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• It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Technology, Men, Standards Set

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