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Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
– Busta Rhymes
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He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
– Theodor Adorno
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He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
– Johann Most
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He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.
– Shel Silverstein
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Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
– Charles Rangel
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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
– Joe Biden
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For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
– Judy Collins
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
– Sally Ride
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Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
– Jimmy Swaggart
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Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.
– George Osborne
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Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.
– Ezra Miller
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Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
– George Mason
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Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.
– Christopher Dawson
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
– Robert Kennedy
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
– Mikhail Bakunin
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Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
– Peter L. Berger
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Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
– David Korten
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Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
– will.i.am
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Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
– Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
– Christopher Lasch
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Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.
– Michael Haneke
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
– Henrik Ibsen
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
– George Bernard Shaw
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
– Clint Eastwood
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Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.
– Simon Mainwaring
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Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
– Jesse Helms
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Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.
– Simon Mainwaring
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Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.
– Eliot Spitzer
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
– Mark Twain
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Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
– Paul Ryan
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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
– Timothy Leary
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But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
– Audre Lorde
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.
– Rowan Atkinson
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But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.
– Muhammad Yunus
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But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
– Peter L. Berger
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But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.
– Condoleezza Rice
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But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
– Lascelles Abercrombie
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But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
– Arlen Specter
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But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
– Rick Perry
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But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.
– Jerry Garcia
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Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.
– Christina Hoff Sommers
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Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
– Judith Light
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Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
– Jim Carrey
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Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
– Stokely Carmichael
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Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
– Neale Donald Walsch
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Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'
– Graham Norton
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Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
– John Ralston Saul
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Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.
– Kenneth Grahame
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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
– Serj Tankian
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Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.
– Julie Bishop
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Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
– Marilyn vos Savant
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
– Ibrahim Babangida
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.
– Rudolf Arnheim
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At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.
– Lucy Powell
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As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.
– Michael Moore
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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
– Henry David Thoreau
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As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.
– Julie Burchill
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As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.
– Lester Bangs
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As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
– Annie Lennox
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
– Yoko Ono
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Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
– Edward Bond
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Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.
– Mario Batali
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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
– Thomas Babington Macaulay
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And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.
– David Miliband
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And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
– James Earl Jones
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And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.
– Minoru Yamasaki
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
– Sam Donaldson
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Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
– Johann Most
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An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
– Dean Kamen
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An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
– Theodor Adorno
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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
– Jack Kemp
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America's a very traumatized society.
– Alanis Morissette
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America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
– Mikhail Gorbachev
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America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.
– Marco Rubio
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
– Jack Kevorkian
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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
– Dennis Prager
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Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
– Bill Gates
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All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.
– Edward Bond
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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
– Desmond Tutu
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All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
– John T. Flynn
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All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
– Ingrid Newkirk
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All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.
– John Hodgman
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AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
– Jerry Falwell
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After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.
– Eliot Spitzer
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Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
– Friedrich Schiller
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Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
– Terri Apter
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Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.
– Robert Carlyle
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
– Iain Duncan Smith
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
– Ibrahim Babangida
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A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
– Jonathan Sacks
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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
– Robert Bork
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A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
– Pauline Hanson
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A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
– John Charles Polanyi
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
– Adam Carolla
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
– Harry Browne
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A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
– Stella Adler
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A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.
– Bhumibol Adulyadej
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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
– George Osborne
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
– Rand Paul
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