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• If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Jobs, Clothes, Trying

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• why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)

  Charles Bukowski

  Stupid, Night, Two

  Charles Bukowski (1972). “Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness”

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• Barack, like any leader, is human.
  And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver us from our own evil.
  Because our challenges are us.
  The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change?
  What are we gonna do differently?

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Leadership, Country

  "Michelle Obama On Love, Family & Politics". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. February 15, 2008.

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• In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided.

  Martin Almada

  Future, Mean, Rights

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• One day I'm gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of humanity.

  Tupac Shakur

  Lying, Blow, Rapper

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• The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Successful, Commercial Banks, Jamaica

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• Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told - sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Dream, Style, Progress

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 77-78), 1964.

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• Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society tends to reduce, and even absorb opposition (the qualitative difference!) in the realm of politics and higher culture, so it does in the instinctual sphere. The result is the atrophy of the mental organs for grasping the contradictions and the alternatives and, in the one remaining dimension of technological rationality, the Happy Consciousness comes to prevail.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Differences, Alternatives, Dimensions

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.82, Routledge

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• There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Years, People

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• We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.

  Marge Piercy

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Marge Piercy (2016). “The Longings of Women: A Novel”, p.351, Open Road Media

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• in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.

  Angela Davis

  Health, Mean, Venture

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• This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls. 

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Soul, Poor, Relief Society

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• I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss." Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it. Find your own way and make your own contribution. Find a way to make a contribution to this society because God knows we need contributions from the coming generation. This planet and this civilization is in need. I see it as a time of need.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Civilization, People, Needs

  Interview with Karleigh Moore, tech.mit.edu. April 1, 2014.

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• Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: how should this society work? How should relationships among people work? The exploration is: who am I, what am I doing?

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, People, Profound

  "In conversation: Alison Gopnik". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. November 1, 2011.

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• Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

  Edmund Burke

  Art, Perfection, Society

  Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.498

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• We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

  Margaret Mead

  Nature, Carpe Diem, Society

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• I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

  Tupac Shakur

  Mother, Children, Reality

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

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• I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

  Susan Sontag

  People, Mad

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.340, Macmillan

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• The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.

  Edward Albee

  Voice, Views, Might

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

  Bob Weir

  Kids, Always Trying, Parent

  Source: medium.com

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• Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.

  Ai Weiwei

  Stars, Unique, People

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• I have 90 percent or 95 percent support in the African American community and it's not sort of "Well, he's black, so it's okay. We're not going to say anything even though we're seething." And I hang out with a lot of middle-aged black women, and they're not casual in their support of me. There's a lot of love forthcoming. Partly because they understand the constraints of this society. They know that this is hard.

  Barack Obama

  Community, Support, African American

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.

  Ai Weiwei

  Father, Independent, Thinking

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

  Ai Weiwei

  Feelings, China, Secure

  Source: www.believermag.com

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