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“I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.”

Thinking Different Body Difficult Shapes Photography Blame Variety Our Society Women's Bodies Battleground

Author:Keira Knightley

“Politically correct enforcement that`s out there in our society has tightened things down to the point where people just walk on eggshells and they are afraid to address things that are really on their mind.”

People Mind Walks Addresses Our Society Enforcement Politically Correct Eggshells

Author:Ted Cruz

“After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.”

People Lost Grief Silence Minutes Worst Honor Empathy Victim Our Society October Bombing Ankara

Author:Elif Safak

“The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our society in futile attempts to achieve this security.”

People Way Values Technology Sacrifice Achieve Security Protect Our Society

Author:Bruce Schneier

“Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.”

Law Lying Secret Company Products Foundation Court Consumers Our Society Insecurity Ruling

Author:Bruce Schneier

“In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.”

Reality Vision Genius Obsessed Our Society Nuts Automobile

Author:Rodger Kamenetz

“It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.”

Thinking Writing Facts Myth Our Society

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.”

Lost Ability Blind Our Society Affected Imagery

Author:Alfredo Jaar

“We discussed relationships, abuse, divorce and more. In our society, women have no outlet for these things. The only outlet is the church. And the church can't handle everything. I saw a gap.”

Church Saws Abuse Divorce Handle Our Society Gaps Outlets

Author:Mo Abudu

“People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.”

People Ifs Way Care Waiting Take Care Our Society

Author:Liberace

“Guns are far too accessible and too readily available. There are over 200 million guns in our society - and that's just the legal ones, the ones we know about. Every ten seconds, another gun is produced. And every fourteen minutes, some person in America dies from gun-inflicted action.”

Knows Persons Action America Dies Millions Minutes Ten Gun Available Our Society Seconds Fourteen

Author:Joycelyn Elders

“What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in the eye. It seems to me that if we look back at mediaeval culture, for example, we see a society which faces the reality of death and pain and limitation, because it has to. Our society, which is progressive and technological and seems to have a slightly fanatical utopian edge to it, gets very uncomfortable when anybody highlights the dark side of humanity, or the world we have built, or what we are doing to the rest of life on Earth.”

“With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.”

Want Stills Ideas Running Dies Cities Creatures Percent Areas Our Society Multiculturalism Metropolitan

Author:David Simon

“There are a lot of voices inside of us. We have the voices of our parents, our grandparents, our society, our bosses, our own should's and shouldn'ts, and our self-worth is in us, controlling us a lot. When we can get past all of those, and get to the deep, core part of us, there's a voice within our soul that I believe is connected to our Divine or Higher Self. That voice within is there to guide us through all aspects of our lives.”

Should Believe Soul Self Past I Believe Parent Voice Our Lives Divine Higher Aspect Connected Guides Core Self Worth Our Society Boss Grandparent Higher Self

Author:Echo Bodine

“Men have never really been encouraged to listen to their intuition, or told that they have an intuition. It's been more of a female thing, at least according to our society, but that's not true at all.”

Men Female Intuition Our Society

Author:Echo Bodine

“Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats.”

Love Humans May Community Psychology Society Childhood Depends Survival Threat Protection Our Society Nurture Infancy

Book:Every child's birthright: in defense of mothering

Source: Every child's birthright: in defense of mothering

“There is no other complex field in our society in which do-it-yourself beats out factory production or market production. Nobody makes his or her own car. But it is still the case that parents can perform the job of educating their children [homeschooling], in many cases better than our present education system.”

Children Stills Jobs Parent Cases Car Fields Beats Complexes Productions Our Society Factories Education System Homeschooling Do It Yourself

Author:Milton Friedman

“Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.”

Real Seems Levels Theory Diversity Raises Tolerance Real Life Rising Our Society Discomfort Invoke

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.”

Giving Has Beens Used Speech Members Court Supreme Our Society Immense Free Speech Supreme Court

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the percentage of reasonable people in our society.”

People Persons Reading Share Apples Reasonable Our Society Accurate Percentages Macs

Author:Roger Ebert

“The money our society spends goes to appease those with power. As such, it goes mainly to those who don't need it. A nation that redistributes income to its poor buys a civilized and humane society, and it buys this with a miniscule share of the national income and a modest reduction in the supply of cleaning women. A country that subsidizes workers in the prime working years sacrifices, not a dust-free living room, but the very muscle of the national economy.”

“Marriage and parenting are the two strongest vows anyone will ever make. When you see these commitments being carelessly discarded, you can be certain that the ethics of that generation have been abandoned. ... What our society needs is a good dose of biblical ethic from God's people - the kind of ethic that requires us to keep our word no matter what the costs. Situational ethics have so shaped our society that even God's people have lost the concept of absolutes when it comes to keeping our word.”

People Needs Kind Has Beens Two Matter Certain Lost Generations Cost Ethics Concepts Commitment Absolutes No Matter What Our Society Strongest Abandoned Biblical Vow Dose Our Words Discarded

Author:Larry Burkett

“Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.”

Today Christian Culture Tolerance Obsession Our Society Intolerance Offense

Author:Charles Colson

“For all the good things it has brought our society, the Web has also fostered ideological hermits, who only talk to folks who believe exactly what they do. This creates an echo chamber that only further convinces people that they are right, and everyone else is not only wrong, but an idiot or worse. So when an incident like this one arises, it's not enough to point out an error; they must prove that the error had nefarious origins. In some places on the Web, everything happens on a grassy knoll.”

People Believe Enough Happens Prove Good Things Errors Folks Things Happen Arise Idiot Convince Our Society Echoes Chamber Incidents Ideological Hermits

Author:James Brady

“Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.”

Heart Stories Community Our Society Extremity Vicars

Author:Tom Hollander

“This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's sake, speak up. Don't we need to learn respect for people's feelings? What is going to school for? To learn how to add?”

People Needs Feelings Today School America Speak Hurt Paper Add Sake Our Society Topics Papers Society Today

Author:Hal Holbrook

“Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society is offering very limited options for youth. And that while society points to a radical decline in living wage jobs for youth and meaningful and affordable education, hip-hop is offering an alternative legitimate economy that is giving youth hope.”

“As Indigenous peoples, we know there is more to the world. We know spirits exist. We know as women, because we're especially attuned to this kind of knowledge, that spirits exist and have a presence in our lives. Some of us are gifted and can communicate with the spirit world. Not everyone has that gift and can perceive the borders between the living and the dead and our society actively discourages us of exploring the knowledge of what many of us have already always known in our cultures.”

Knows World Kind Spirit Culture Known Our Lives Communicate Perceive Borders Our Society Gifted Exploring Indigenous Discouraging Indigenous People Spirit World

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“It's the same thing in a way with privacy. You can say "I'm not doing anything wrong, therefore this doesn't concern me," but what does it mean about our society if we're all being watched and recorded? The personal experience - negotiating this as individuals - doesn't describe the social reality and the broader social costs.”

Ifs Way Mean Doe Reality Individual Social Cost Concern Privacy Our Society Personal Experiences Negotiating

Author:Astra Taylor

“I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind of manufacture highs and lows.”

Way Kind Use Interesting Drug Lows Drinking Our Society Highs And Lows

Author:Craig Finn

“I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.”

Thinking Helping Courses Crisis Invisible Our Society Existential Getting Old Getting Older Personal Experiences Older Women Existential Crisis

Author:Kate Zambreno

“I hope what I do when I draw from other people's lives is pay tribute. To try to understand what it means in our society to be silenced. To try to understand how class and gender intersect with that. To try to understand how being named and classified within the context of psychiatry can intersect with all that, as well.”

People Trying Wells Mean Life Is Pay Class Draws Gender Our Society Psychiatry Tribute

Author:Kate Zambreno

“Journalism is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting. I was a judge in some award contest recently, and the stuff that is being done by major newspapers, and local, regional papers around the country, is great. Newspapers play an amazing role in our society, and I still think they are important. I'm sorry newspaper circulation is down. Ultimately, the importance of newspapers can't be replaced.”

“In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that.”

Needs Term Situation Security Addresses Our Society Wildlife

Author:Veronika Varekova

“We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant for a bracelet." We became sensitized in our society. Now there are four or five billion people in Asia who need to get this message. We need to use social media, print magazines, celebrities - anything we can to share this message. It's not cool, it's not okay. You are destroying beautiful animals. You are robbing a continent of its wealth. And you are hurting a lot of innocent people.”

“It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education. It starts with the way people are brought up, and what is put into their heads and put into their minds as engaged citizens.”

People Way Mind Bigs Secret Citizens Engaged Our Society Lacking

Author:Oren Moverman

“That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book”

Ifs Wells Doe Said Important Book Opinion Achieve Honest Strive Journalism Being Honest Our Society Fairness Strife Objectivity Presenting

Author:Sheri Fink

“I think the new technologies have become pervasive in our society, such as cellphones and the internet, and they've insidiously affected our personal sense of space and belonging.”

Thinking Space Technology Internet Our Society Belonging Affected New Technology Cellphone

Author:Jia Zhangke

“There are a lot of celebrities that I think can get a little bit distracted by the way that our society views celebrity. All of a sudden, the film becomes about, "Come see this celebrity!" I'm not interested in that. I want to see a story.”

Thinking Way Want Littles Stories Film Bits Views Little Bit Our Society Not Interested Distracted

Author:Condola Rashad

“Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.”

Way Humans America Spiritual Common Democratic Israel Insight Prophet Our Society Hebrew Human Freedom Spiritual Insight

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“I'm a part of the GOP and let me tell you what my stance is. My stance is that, we the people have the responsibility to take care of the indigent in our society. It's not the government's job. You can read the Constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government's job and I think where we've gotten confused.”

People Thinking Want Government Care Jobs Responsibility Let Me Constitution Take Care Confused Our Society Stance Gop

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that - particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.”

Thinking Humans Actors Dangerous Behavior Illness Mental Illness Fascinating Our Society Surround Human Behavior Misconception Stigma

Author:Laura Benanti

“Making prostitution legalized gives our society a message that sex is not sacred/private between two adults - that sex can be bought and sold just like any object. But prostitutes are people, not objects to be consumed, used and discarded like trash when they are no longer doing what each client/trafficker wants.”

People Want Giving Two Used Sex Objects Messages Adults Sacred Our Society Clients Trash Consumed Prostitution Discarded

Author:Annie Lobert

“The basis of all love is self-love and we certainly suffer a lot in our society from lack of self-love. When we don't take care of ourselves, it's really just a symptom of not loving ourselves. So the worst thing that we can do is to beat ourselves up for how we've already treated ourselves.”

Self Care Suffering Can Do Love Is Worst Self Love Beats Bases Take Care Treated Our Society Worst Things Symptoms

Author:Marci Shimoff

“I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid.”

People Feels Believe I Believe Bottom Our Society Entitled Pyramids

Author:Ice Cube

“I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.”

Thinking Trying May Children Parent Shapes Direct Impulse Our Society Mold

Author:Michael Sandel

“Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense that certain racial groups, regardless of class, are minorities. So what happens is those "minorities" at the very top of the ladder get chosen for everything.”

Real Matter Happens Action Certain Race Class Groups Members No Matter What Chosen Minorities Our Society Ladders Affirmative Action Affirmative Disadvantaged

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.”

Hate Choices Fighting Fashion Youth Worship I Hate Aging Our Society Arrogant Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery

Author:Thomas Haden Church

“Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of "ecological consciousness" or "environmental responsibility" but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular.”

Source: Animal rights: a Christian assessment of man's treatment of animals

“Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.”

Trying Artist Asks Blame Our Society

Author:Lawrence Weiner

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