Quotes 181 till 200 of 564.
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If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
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If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
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In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
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In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.
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In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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In England the practice of virtual representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 167 -
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.
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In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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