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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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• Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you can function in an area without much information.

  Paul Bley

  Music, Imagination, Information

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• I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

  Charles Mingus

  Men, White, Black

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• Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.

  Marge Piercy

  Baby, Kids, Thinking

  Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.274, Open Road Media

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• For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

  Joe Biden

  Long, Community, Common

  "Biden Joins Campaign for the Presidency" by E. J. Dionne Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1987.

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  We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

  Hillary Clinton

  Anger, Thinking, Society

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• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

  Frederick Douglass

  Peace, Patriotic, Ignorance

  Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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• This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.

  Yoko Ono

  Frustration, Reality, Men

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• When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

  Bryan Brown

  America, Able, Persons

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

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• When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

  Pia Zadora

  Work, Years, Perfect

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• The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that Darwin's theories apply solely to biological processes and not to processes of the spirit.

  Derek R. Audette

  Views, Politics, Facts

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• It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Injustice, Quintessence, Understatement

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• [But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war.

  Ahad Ha'am

  Dream, War, Panic

  "Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". Book by Tony Kushner, Alisa Solomon, p. 16., 2003.

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• Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.

  Peter Drucker

  Expression, Order, Progress

  "The End of Economic Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1939.

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• This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.

  Peter Drucker

  Class, Giving, People

  "Managing in a Time of Great Change". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1995.

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• There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.

  Maxim Gorky

  Song, Book, Writing

  "Foma Gordeyev". Book by Maxim Gorky, 1899.

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• The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Men, World

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.199, Orient Blackswan

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• I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

  William Julius Wilson

  Racism, Rising, Half

  New River Media Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.

  Hannah Arendt

  Meaningful, Freedom, Automation

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• It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.

  Ana Castillo

  Power, Men, Color

  Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books

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• Consider children as a beat. Clearly not an institution of power, children don't vote and they don't pass taxes. They have no money, and they don't buy newspapers or watch the news on television. Consequently, children are one of the most neglected segments of society in the news, except as a subtopic of other power beats such as education, family, and crime. Children are in serious trouble in this society, which means the foundation of our society is in trouble, which means the future is in trouble, and that is news.

  Joan Konner

  Children, Mean, Foundation

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• If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Doe, Violence, Injustice

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• In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered something less?

  Andrej Pejic

  Men, Insult, Ifs

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