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“Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.”

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

“Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.”

Should Has Beens Made Film Audience Seeing Adults Significant Cinema Our Society Spheres Polish Pressured

Author:Andrzej Wajda

“We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.”

Men Young Found Black Liberty Thousand Eight East Miles Young Man Guarantees Our Society Asia Georgia Miles Away Crippled Harlem Thousand Miles Southeast Asia

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.”

Mind Has Beens Country Poor Driven Invisible Our Country Our Society Mainstream

Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.”

Revolution Easier Our Society Momentary Passivity Outburst Placid

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“Our society has become an employee society.”

Employee Our Society

Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

“I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education.”

World Giving Problem Political Asks Talent Offers Benefits Decided Critical Educated Our Society Arena Hammers

Author:John F. Kennedy

“There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.”

People Knows Happiness Great Men Our Society Not Happy

Author:Theodore Isaac Rubin

“Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.”

“Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.”

Men Reason Pleasure He Man Our Society Prime Fellowship Good Nature Deviate

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.”

Believe I Believe Ignorance Corruption Our Society Malevolence

Book:THE ART OF TEACHING

Source: THE ART OF TEACHING

“But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.”

People Today Together Term Conflict Essentials Our Society Prospects Society Today

Author:Tony Blair

“As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.”

Done Political Names Enemy Groups Communism Damage Organized Our Society Communist Fractions Subversion Political Groups

Book:America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962

Source: America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962

“Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.”

Has Beens Society Huge Confused Our Society Goodwill Crippled Perplexed

Author:Vaclav Havel

“The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are meant to travel together, with spirit leading the way. Until we make a conscious commitment to understand and embrace our spiritual nature, we will endure the ache of living without the awareness and guidance of the most essential part of ourselves.”

Way Mind Together Spiritual Spirit Effort Awareness Balance Essentials Conscious Commitment Embrace Endure Guidance Our Society Ache Spiritual Nature Leading The Way

Book:Lessons in Living

Source: Lessons in Living

“When we don't pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major issues of the day, when we choose not to make our voices and opinions heard, that's when democracy breaks down. That's when power is abused. That's when the most extreme voices in our society fill the void that we leave. That's when powerful interests and their lobbyists are most able to buy access and influence in the corridors of power - because none of us are there to speak up and stop them.”

“I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.”

Written Our Society Biographies

Author:Kitty Kelley

“There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.”

People Looks Stories Eye Literature Hero Extraordinary Critical Our Society

Author:Naguib Mahfouz

“Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all the blandishments of mass culture-even the churches which follow the hillbillies to the city often make use of the same "hard sell" that the advertisers and politicians do.”

Way Littles Has Beens Hard Use Culture Church Cities Education Politician Offers Mass Sells Traditional Our Society Exposed Torn Advertisers Mass Culture

Book:Abundance for What?

Source: Abundance for What?

“Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.”

Should Realizing Theology Our Society Being Human Humane

Author:Vidal Sassoon

“Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies”

Reality Our Lives Media Worship Denial Our Society Gossip Unreal Disconnected Sensationalism

Author:Carl Bernstein

“I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.”

People Thinking Should Important Running Interest Natural Subjects Our Society

Author:Chester Brown

“There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.”

Thinking Our Society Conning

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.”

Difficult Commitment Lifetime Permanent Organized Our Society Organized Religion

Author:Mary Douglas

“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.”

Ifs Writing Violence Shapes Violent Manners Our Society Negativity Jane Austen

Book:Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion

Source: Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion

“I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.”

People Thinking Should Believe Made Important Jobs Growth Issues Economic Focused Officials Our Society Economic Growth Diversion Elected Officials

Author:Jeb Bush

“Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.”

People Should Kind Has Beens Process Creation Defined Our Society Involvement

Author:Robert Foster Bennett

“The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.”

People Jobs Suffering Terrible Vulnerable Our Society Joblessness Plight

Author:Tim Bishop

“I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.”

Life Is Fantasy Notion Our Society Relevant Personal Life Speculation Misguided Hearsay

Author:Billy Crudup

“Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.”

People Ifs Men Has Beens Done Generations Ought Traditional Our Society Cornerstones Traditional Marriage

Author:Steve Chabot

“A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.”

Self Belief Ideals Disappointment Our Society Alphas Introversion Pathology Gregarious

Author:Susan Cain

“In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who’s comfortable "putting himself out there."”

Thinking Self Values Individual Type Comfortable Ideals Individuality Admire Our Society Spotlight Gregarious

Author:Susan Cain

“No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.”

Facts Bigs Government Literature Force Forever Environment Our Society Doing Good Big Business

Author:Jared Diamond

“Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.”

Stills Progress Constitution Our Society

Author:Charles Edison

“I've always wondered what it would be like if the Messiah, or Christ Returned, were actually alive and living in our society; who would that person be, how we would identify them, how would they live and what would they believe in, how would society react to them? I decided to try and tell my idea of that story.”

Ifs Trying Believe Persons Ideas Stories Would Be Christ Alive Decided Our Society Messiah

Author:James Frey

“It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.”

World Said Important Life Is Evil Economy Our Lives Aspect Roots Analysis Our Society Priests Economist Consensus

Author:David Graeber

“I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.”

Members Invisible Visible Our Society Older Women Describe Myself

Author:Cindy Gallop

“I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Film Social Deals Theme Our Society Smallest Units Scope

Author:Atom Egoyan

“I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had to take care of themselves for quite a while. Actually, not had to take of themselves, but have wanted to take care of themselves, so I think it's a big transition that our country and our society has been going through a long time.”

Thinking World Long Has Beens Country Bigs Care Wanted Culture Long Time Happenings Take Care Our Country Our Society Transition Popular Culture

Author:Lisa Edelstein

“One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.”

“You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.”

Kind Use School Used Stuff Realizing Interesting Teacher Personality Drama Various Phrases Our Society Traits Introvert Ripped Jung Extroverts

Author:Michael Fassbender

“In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.”

Kind Self Stuff Perfection Hollywood Obsession Our Society Neurosis Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.”

Democracy Elements Our Society Liberal Democracy

Author:Gustav Heinemann

“It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.”

People Believe Certain Grows Easy Growing Up Risk Lifestyle Our Society

Author:Bill James

“We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.”

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