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• Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Religious, Jail, Common Sense

  "Jail: An Inmates Survival Guide". Panama Publishing Inc. Book, p. 24, 2007.

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• Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

  Barbara Jordan

  Food, Anger, Thinking

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• No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Depression, Death, Pain

  "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

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• I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Causes, Raised

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• I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

  Tupac Shakur

  Lying, Thug, Trying

  Song: Starin' Through My Rear View

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• It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Facts, Accepting

  "Death: The Final Stage of Growth". Book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Chapter 2, 1974.

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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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• Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that we have internalized ourselves inside black communities. You look at many of the prominent black people in this society who have been able to do well. Many have been lighter-skinned.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Light, White, People

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• Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

  Isabel Allende

  Warrior, Gun, Thinking

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

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• I love individuals. I think people are terrific as I meet and get to know them. I like imagination. I like the freedom that this society manages to parcel out to us in the midst of the rest of what they do to you. I also like thinking about the fact that the atoms in me are the same atoms that are in all the rest of the universe, and that every one of those atoms came from the middle of a star. In other words, it's only me out there.

  George Carlin

  Stars, Thinking, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Minorities, Action, Disapproval

  "Justice Sotomayor prefers "Sonia from the Bronx"". Interview with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. January 29, 2013.

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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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• This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Progress, Culture, Satisfaction

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.78, Beacon Press

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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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• I think that the sense of inefficacy and inevitability comes not from thinking the rich are going to have all the educational advantages. No, I think it comes from the sense that politically, the wealthy have overwhelming power in this society and there's nothing, say a lot of people, that we can do about it. That is simply wrong

  Paul Solman

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension of my dreams and fantasies, there's a tendency to think of them as immature. I live in a mature world. The majority of the people in this society live with delusions and illusions much more irrational and hurtful than mine. They deal with mortality, with fantasies relating to heaven and hell, and they don't really deal with their problems at all.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Thinking, People

  "Media: Rabbit is Rich". Interview with Jonathan Roberts, www.interviewmagazine.com. December, 1985.

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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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• We live in this society where you must constantly be reinventing yourself. The big question is what are you doing next. The only thing they want is composed of these three elements: They want you to do it the exact same way because they want more of it; but they want it to be totally different; and they want it to be better. That's all you have to do. You just have to do something that's exactly the same, totally different, and better.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Different, Three, Elements

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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