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Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday’s and today’s school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

—Malcolm X

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Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods

—Montesquieu

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You can’t build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

—Norman Borlaug

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It’s like the frog that tried to outdo the cow…see, the consequences are reflected in each of us as individuals. A people so oppressed by the West have no mental leisure, they can’t do anything...

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The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers’ licenses are recognized. But not people. People haven’t any use for faces anymore, it seems. They are busy looking at...

—Muhammad Yunus

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And that is the problem with a society that doesn’t read books. The most painful form of censorship does not come from a centralized, repressive government. It is a cast, black cloak of a nation’s...

—Lourd de

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In this world we are all pretenders, and Society is our game

—Lucas Sterk

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Hunger quashes man’s will to help his fellow man.

—Kang Chol-Hwan

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In order to appreciate and respect diversity we must first recognize and embrace our humanity.

—Liza Wiemer

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If non-linear leaps in intelligence and ability are possible, why haven’t these effects been observed in our schools? I believe the answer lies in the profound inertia of human thought: when an entire society believes...

—John Mighton

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In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph...

—Neil Postman

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What is society but an individual? […] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean...

—Osamu Dazai

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Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

—Naomi Wolf

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Soytarı olan ben değilim, deliliğini gizlemek için ciddiyet oyunu oynayan, şu aklın mantığın almayacağı ölçüde sinsi, bönlüğünden bile habersiz toplum.

—Salvador Dalí

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It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions – you take orders from above and maybe give them...

—Noam Chomsky

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Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn’t fall down.

—Stefan Molyneux

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Yet while I do this work because of my faith, I also recognize of course that in a pluralistic society there are many different perspectives. It is both unrealistic and wrong to insist that everyone...

—Simone Campbell

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People above the line of bare subsistence in this age, and in all earlier ages, do not use the surplus which society has given them primarily for useful purposes. They do not seek to expand...

—Stuart Chase

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REPENT:FOR THE KINGDOM OF GODIS AT HANDThe whole message of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ are: Repent: For the Kingdom of God is at hand.But this message has been terrible misunderstood by the priests...

—Swami Dhyan

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[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns…We are now…only beginning to explore the potentialities which it offers for...

—Ralph Linton

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Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen

—Theodor W.

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

—R. Buckminster

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If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain – and there is no reason to think that those alternatives...

—Robert Bringhurst

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Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

—Steve Maraboli

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The thing I got to thinking about,’ he said, ‘is–what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here–and that...

—Warren St.

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Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn’t listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dressed...

—Unknown Author

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the way you look defines who you are. You might argue for your soul, or your heart, but everyone else in the world will judge you on your big nose or your weak chin. Six...

—Paul Murray

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Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren’t lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years...

—Timothy Ferriss

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A society which sees her modesty or her “hang-ups” as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now...

—Wendy Shalit

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Vi har noen rettigheter, plikter og verdier vi tar som en selvfølge. Men også selvfølgelighetene må begrunnes og forsvares. De oppleste og vedtatte sannhetene har godt av å bli utfordret, ikke minst for å gi...

—Trine Skei

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All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep down, nobody really cared. The other girls didn’t care about Jennifer....

—Blake Nelson

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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

—Arthur Miller

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The sufferings which may be observed nowadays – they are so widespread and so vast – but people speak nevertheless about a certain moral improvement which society has achieved…

—Anton Chekhov

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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

—B. F. Skinner

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The best charity to serve humanity is just a person’s simplicity of living with his basic necessity

—Anuj Somany

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the price of creationis nevertoo high.the price of livingwith other peoplealwaysis.

—Charles Bukowski

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Sabe, sargento, a loucura, quando dá a um grande número de pessoas, chama-se sociedade contempor nea. Quando dá a uma pessoa só, interna-se essa pessoa.

—Afonso Cruz

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Look out!! Ha! Now you’ve done it! Now you’ve broken a lamp, and you’ve got no one to blame it on but yourself!””Maybe I could blame it on society!

—Charles M.

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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

—Clay Shirky

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Across the centuries the moral systems from medival chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have worked the same basic way. They take immediate selfish interests and enmesh them within transcendent, spiritual meanings. Love becomes a...

—David Brooks

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We are adamant about ridding our society from the scourge of terrorism and standing against it, but at the same time we want to see civil liberties of Americans preserved.

—Esam Omeish

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What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not limit our access to information but in fact widen it. Our...

—Huxleyan

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Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

—Criss Jami

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A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

—George Eliot

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Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

—Idries Shah

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They are going to see it anyway.” If we don’t show them that integrity is something you should always have in the back of your mind, then we’ve given up on them.

—Cyndi Goodgame

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Change in ourselves equals change in our society.

—Ifeanyi Enoch

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Toda sociedad es un sistema de interpretación del mundo (…) Su propia identidad no es otra cosa que ese “sistema de interpretación”, ese mundo que ella crea. Y esa es la razón por la cual...

—Cornelius Castoriadis

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It was before him again in its completeness — the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom...

—Edith Wharton

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She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with....

—Harper Lee

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