Quotes 381 till 400 of 564.
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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Sceptical Essays -
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
Motivation and Personality (1954) -
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787) -
The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
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The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
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The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ''social worker'' -judge.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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