Quotes 421 till 440 of 564.
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The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?
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The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
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The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.
The Sociological Imagination (1959) -
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
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The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.
Revolutionary Suicide (2009) -
The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
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