This Society Quotes

• I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Believe, Bad Ass

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

  Edward Abbey

  Funny, Political, Scum

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• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Witty, Memorial Day

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Yoga, Health

  "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity". Book by Mark Vonnegut, 1975.

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  The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions". Book edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281, 1988.

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  No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Change, Philosophy

  "Robin Williams: Genie in the Lamp" by Alex Kip, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

  Lord Byron

  Two, Bores You, Bored

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• Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Funny, Fear, Civilization

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

  Emily Bronte

  Country, Men, Solitude

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.387, Penguin

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• Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, Society, Care

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• American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

  Henry Adams

  America, Water, Society

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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• The happiness of society is the end of government.

  John Adams

  Happiness, Government, Presidential

  'Thoughts on Government' (1776)

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• Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Faith, Society, Live By

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• Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

  Jim Rohn

  Money, Independent, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 03, 2016

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• Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.

  Pat Robertson

  Giving, Judging, Trying

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• Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

  Michael Pare

  Numbers, Political, Excess

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 2010.

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• It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Perfectly Normal, People, Mind

  "Christopher Hitchens: the top 10 quotes from the author, journalist and atheist", www.mirror.co.uk. December 16, 2011.

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• To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

  Cecil Taylor

  Feels

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• So you have the ownership of the Phoenix Suns, the Los Suns, and whoever - "We don't want to offend the portion of our fan base. We want to appear to be politically correct. We want to appear to be all-inclusive" and so forth. Well, fine and dandy, but what happens when that contributes to the overall deterioration of the culture of this society?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Phoenix, Deterioration, Want

  "Professional Sports Should Man Up". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 5, 2010.

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• I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time when the spirit of the community, the non-ideological blend of the emotional and rational and the resistance to categories and forms will emerge through the forces of anti-nationalism to provide us with a new kind of society. I call this process the Judaization of Christianity because Christianity will be the vehicle through which this society becomes Jewish.

  Martin A. Siegel

  Emotional, Community, Resistance

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• Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex.

  Valerie Solanas

  Sex, Government, Feminist

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 1, 1967.

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• I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

  Steven Seagal

  Thinking, Law, People

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• The men can go away, the executives can go away, but what is really though in this society are the players who has been handed down the feel of winning, of being the absolute best, which isn't equal to any other team.

  Gianluigi Buffon

  Team, Winning, Player

  As quoted after Cagliari Calcio 2-3 Juventus FC. Stadio Sant'Elia di Cagliari, September 2, 2007.

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• Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

  Kate Millett

  Important, Would Be, Sexuality

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• One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.

  Michael Pare

  Political, Doe, Marxist

  "Dirty truths". Book by Michael Parenti, 1996.

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