Our Society Quotes - Page 40

• One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

  Clay Shirky

  Prevention, Reactions

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.186, Penguin

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• I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.

  Wes Moore

  Responsibility, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that idea of alienation, for whatever reason, is still very prevalent within our society and a lot of people deal with it - most people deal with it at some point in their life unless they're sort of the golden child. I think that's something that we all need to address.

  Michael Fassbender

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  "X-Men: First Class - Michael Fassbender interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.

  Cameron Diaz

  Grateful, Important, Age

  "The Holiday - Cameron Diaz interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Appearance is valued too much in our society.

  Claude Lelouch

  Too Much, Appearance

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.

  Esra Saydam

  Issues, Empowering, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Women have to be careful and teach their girls to be aware of their surroundings and never be alone with testosterone-crazed boys. A lot of little lives are being ruined and our society is to blame. Our kids are just searching and being curious but they are dangerously looking for the wrong kind of attention.

  Pamela Anderson

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work.

  Sam Keen

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

  Sam Keen

  Jobs, Mean, Views

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

  Sam Keen

  Good Night, Hands, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Our society in general has is more money equals more happiness and all the research has shown that that's true up to a point, up until you can get your basic needs met, but then really there is other stuff that has a much bigger impact on your happiness besides just money.

  Tony Hsieh

  Impact, Needs, Research

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one we have in the United Nations whereby, where there's a problem in our society which demands a compassionate response, an educated, informed, not just a splurgy emotional thing, but an informed compassionate response that puts yourself in the position of the other and sees all sides of the problem, not just your own, there'll be somebody poised in each society who can write to the media, write an op-ed piece, to go on TV or radio.

  Karen Armstrong

  Team, Writing, Emotional

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• ...nuclear warfare is not necessary to cause a breakdown of our society. You take a large city like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago-their water supply comes from hundreds of miles away and any interruption of that, or food, or power for any period of time, you're going to have riots in the streets. Our society is so fragile, so dependent on the interworking of things to provide us with goods and services, that you don't need nuclear warfare to fragment us anymore than the Romans needed it to cause their eventual downfall.

  Gene Roddenberry

  New York, Cities, Water

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• In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Book, Order, Land

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• Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.

  Octavio Paz

  Past, Thinking, Exile

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• Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.

  Richard Attias

  Inspiration, Role Models, Essentials

  "Africa and the Six ‘I’s: Independence, Investment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Incubation, Inspiration" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2013.

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• Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies.

  Christiane Northrup

  Thinking, Understanding, Energy

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• Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.

  Keith Olbermann

  Hurt, Ku Klux Klan, News

  "Keith Olbermann: 'Fox News Is Worse Than Al Qaeda'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. September 10, 2007.

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• In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Meaningful, Issues, Corporations

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• I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Mean, Generosity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Artist, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Thinking, Failing, Dictatorship

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose the path of a socialist market economy. We have achieved strong economic growth, and yet the sense of solidarity in our society has not been lost. This is very important to people.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Strong, War, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring.

  Nelson Mandela

  Caring, Needs, Culture

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• We want to encourage investors to target businesses that focus on achieving more than just profits - by placing their money into businesses that also positively contribute to social or environmental benefits in Ontario. Angel investors can help social enterprises grow and succeed, and through our partnership with the Network of Angel Organizations and the Impact Angel Alliance, we are making it easier for social ventures and angel investors to connect, contribute, and make our society a better place to live.

  Brad Duguid

  Angel, Organization, Impact

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