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“The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.”

Looks Left Impossible Society Idols Preoccupation Smashing

Book:A Preface to Morals

Source: A Preface to Morals

“For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.”

Mind Looks Able Lying Blood Society All Things Stones Look Up Temples Altars Piety

Author:Lucretius

“I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

Ifs Men Giving Looks White Money Hell Society Empty Bottom Superiors Convince Pockets Black People Superiority Lowest Presidency White Man Convincing Noticing

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Go light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social life ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.”

Looks May Light Running Language Social Society Communication Vices All Time Social Life Carrying On Restful

Author:Satchel Paige

“Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue for the Nixon White House that we couldn't resist it.”

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

“Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.”

Source: The Edward Said Reader

“Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.”

Looks Problem Inspiring Environment Society Modern Serious Solutions Environmental Lifestyle Ecology Our Environment Ecological Modern Society Earth Day Natural Environment Serious Look

Author:Pope John Paul II

“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.”

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Author:Dean Kamen

“I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”

Way Looks Different Society Different Ways Desks Carpe Diem This Society Carpe Dead Poets Society Dead Poets

Author:Robin Williams

“I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other”

People Believe Looks I Believe Community Society Mankind Attributes Basics

Author:Fred Hollows

“We have much to contribute to the world; ways of knowing and being that are going to be essential to everyone's survival on our planet. As true citizens of Australia, properly acknowledged in our constitution, we can look forward not only to improving our own lot, but helping Australia contribute to the well-being of all the world's peoples.”

“Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.”

Mind Looks Bigs Eye Next Brain Generations Society Television Tvs These Days Next Generation Eyeballs

Author:Fred Allen

“Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.”

People Looks House Politics Society Politician Succeed Dull House Of Commons

Book:Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

“The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called "worthwhile goals". Money, fame, power, good looks, possessions are the indicators of success and the media and advertising companies exploit this. People are conditioned to believe that they can only feel happy or good about themselves if they have these things. This of course is not true.”

Source: So, You Want to Be Rich... But Jesus Doesn't.