Our Society Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

  Clifford Stoll

  Computer, Salespeople

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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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• That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Thinking, Years, Black

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media

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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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• 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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• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Sound, Nails

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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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• 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 Myrdal

  Attitude, Men, Action

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.154, Psychology Press

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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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• moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  People, Morality, Proof

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.41, Zed Books

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• Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack sufficient use of reason,' are 'incapable of contracting marriage,' according to canon law.

  Nancy Mairs

  Law, Use, Reason

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• Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.

  Anne Truitt

  Children, War, Caring

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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• History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Sick, Process Of Change, Today

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• Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Desire, Needs, Helping

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• The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

  Dan Payne

  Perception, Mail, Professors

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• It was a national disgrace to lose the ERA, but of course we will start, and have done so, all over again. ... There is no deadline for equality in our society.

  Marguerite Rawalt

  Equality, Done, Eras

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• There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Roles, Fundamentals, Care

  "TED 2010 | Nicholas Christakis: Does This Social Network Make Me Look Fat?". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 12, 2010.

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• My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.

  Orlan

  Jobs, Artist, Media

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.

  Peter Thiel

  College, Skills, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Science is given almost no visibility in the media. If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to the conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.

  Michio Kaku

  Paris, Media, Visibility

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 09, 2009.

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• The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society: navigation before the eighteenth century, manufacture thereafter; and in our age I believe the liberation of personality. Whatever the part which scientists like to act, or for that matter which painters like to dress, science shares the aims of our society just as art does.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Believe, Personality

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.99, Faber & Faber

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• In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Character, Innovation, Important

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.1

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