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“In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.”

“The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.”

Age Past Party Half Ignorance Revolution Aim Educated Chains Ties Enlightened Our Society Saddam Hussein Liberated Despotism Emancipation One Half

Book:Social and Foreign Affairs in Iraq (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Social and Foreign Affairs in Iraq (Routledge Revivals)

“The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.”

May Past Voice Conversation Accounts Occasions Our Society Past Present Past Present And Future

Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.”

“Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.”

Way Past Television Our Society Accurate

Author:Janet Street-Porter

“If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.”

Ifs Looks Past Attitude Our Society Affected Soviet Sober Nostalgic

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn