Our Society Quotes - Page 3

• In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Mother, Fate, Plot

  Observations ch. 10 (1970)

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• Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

  George Lucas

  Teacher, Powerful, Important

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• I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

  Mark Udall

  Military, Years, Assault Weapons

  "Udall comes out in favor of reinstating assault weapons ban" by Eli Stokols, kdvr.com. December 20, 2012.

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• The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

  Scott Pelley

  Thinking, America, People

  "Scott Pelley: In His Own Words" by Beth Knobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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• One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Media, Government

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• The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.

  Sissela Bok

  Children, Opportunity, Long

  "Mayhem – Violence as Public Entertainment, Part I". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. March 4, 1998.

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• Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

  Barbra Streisand

  Hate, Despise

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• The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.

  Elton John

  Hate, Ignorance, Past

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• America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

  Jim Leach

  Thinking, America, Doe

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• It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

  Bill James

  Growing Up, Believe, People

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• We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to read books the better our society will be and the wiser our society will be.

  George Brandis

  Book, Thinking, Australia

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

  Erica Jong

  Law, Lasts, Stubbornness

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.52, Penguin

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• Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

  Fred Rogers

  Simple, Giving, Life Is

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• I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that they wanted work. I had only known how workers lived. Now I was face to face with what our society did to workers who could get no work.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Broken, Unemployment, Noses

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• 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

  Autism, Different, Should

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• Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Men, Age, Certain

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.16, Vintage

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• Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

  Rick Santelli

  Greatness, America, Hands

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• Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Men, Broken, Ancestry

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• Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Spiritual, Progress, States

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• I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

  Michael Newdow

  Believe, Government, Atheism

  "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

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• Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

  Janet Napolitano

  Children, Educational, School

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• We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.

  Josh Mandel

  Agency, Government, People

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• In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

  Ethan Hawke

  Self, Perfection, Hollywood

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• Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.

  Caryl Rivers

  Technology, Men, Light

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society was between those who have more and those who have less. Today, however, the difference is between those who know more and those who know less.

  Brian Tracy

  Differences, People, Age

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