Our Society Quotes - Page 9

• The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

  Ray Bradbury

  War, Car, Weapons

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.164, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I've got two little girls, I'm not scared about sex. I'll teach them, it's not going to kill them. But what could kill them is violence. Guns, drinking and driving, these are the real dangers in our society.

  William H. Macy

  Girl, Sex, Real

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, Civilization, Games

  Interview with Ben Ehrenreich, www.believermag.com. April 2006.

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• Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.

  Eva Longoria

  Weight, Gains, Pimples

  "Eva Longoria Parker Shows Her Sexy Side". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. December 28, 2008.

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• That's why there is such alienation, depression, and despair in our society - because the means we're employing doesn't lead to the ends we desire, no matter how hard we work, nor how much "stuff" we accumulate.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Mean, Despair, Desire

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Thinking, Choices, Acceptable

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• If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!

  Narendra Modi

  Sports, India, Spirit

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• I think we're skating on surfaces. I know it in my own life - and I think that is where this frustration comes in. It's not the place we want to be, but it's the place our society requires that we be. There is no fulfillment there. So we become numbed, we become drugged, we become less than we are. And I think that we know that.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Frustration, Thinking, Skating

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The class warfare was in the script as well. It establishes what the world is like and what would happen if we really had two zones that were left and everybody had to survive using these two areas. What would our society to do with that set up? I wanted the state of world, in my mind, how it would actually realistically unfold. I drew that from what was in the script.

  Len Wiseman

  Class, Two, Mind

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

  Richard Carlson

  Life, Stress, People

  Richard Carlson (1999). “A Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Treasury: A Special Selection for Mothers”, Hyperion

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• Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

  Kevin Kelly

  Future, Technology, Vision

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• Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

  Mike Rogers

  Respect, Appreciate, Majority

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• I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

  Frank Murphy

  Religious, Believe, Practice

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• But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.

  Kathleen Norris

  Christian, Philosophy, Daily Tasks

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• I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

  Reggie Jackson

  Kids, People, Role Models

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• There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

  Mike McCurry

  Party, Struggle, Class

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• Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

  Ted Turner

  Negative, Television, Effects

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

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• Our society in general devalues the 'she' - qualities that are associated with the feminine that are found in all of us. As a result there's this imbalance and this distortion and it's hindering our progress.

  Emma Watson

  Progress, Quality, Imbalance

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• We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Past, Judging, Should

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1967). “And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines”

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• The kingdom of God must be a continuing revolution against the norms of the society that fall below the standards that are set for us in the gospel of Jesus Christ. In the field of public life, it must be a continuing revolution against proposals that contradict the fundamental principles as laid down in the Constitution of the United States, which was written by men whom God raised up for this very purpose. If we remember that, we will be in the forefront of every battle against the things that are tearing down our society.

  Harold B. Lee

  Jesus, Fall, Men

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• It's truly hard to understand how liberal politicians, activists and journalists so consistently escape accountability for stoking the flames of racial disharmony while purporting to dampen them and for dividing our society along racial, gender, and economic lines while claiming to unite us.

  David Limbaugh

  Flames, Accountability, Lines

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• The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky.

  Jamie Glazov

  Wall, Fall, Media

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• Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Past, Years, Differences

  Rajiv Gandhi (1987). “Selected speeches and writings”

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• Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies.

  Rowan Williams

  Compassion, Community, Feelings

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• Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Men, Iron

  "More Tips for Novelists". "Chicago Tribune" Newspaper, May 2, 1926.

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