166 Quotes About Our-society

  • Author Matt Taibbi
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    Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

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

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  • Author Jean Vanier
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    When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.

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  • Author Joan D. Vinge
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    But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

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  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.

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  • Author Alan Watts
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    Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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  • Author Andrzej Wajda
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    Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

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  • Author Cornel West
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    Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

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