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“The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.”

Ifs Successful Building Mantras This Society Jamaica Ailments Commercial Banks

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that Darwin's theories apply solely to biological processes and not to processes of the spirit.”

Stills Facts Spirit Politics Belief Process Views Theory Mere Proof This Society

Author:Derek R. Audette

“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.”

Ifs Needs Real Character Effort Quality Society Balls Addresses Nerves This Society Real Character

Author:Jerry Garcia

“It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.”

Injustice This Society Understatement Quintessence

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war.”

Ifs Way War Dream Faces Notion Internals Midst Panic Prospects This Society

Author:Ahad Ha'am

“I think that the sense of inefficacy and inevitability comes not from thinking the rich are going to have all the educational advantages. No, I think it comes from the sense that politically, the wealthy have overwhelming power in this society and there's nothing, say a lot of people, that we can do about it. That is simply wrong”

People Thinking Can Do Rich Advantage Educational Wealthy Overwhelming Inevitability This Society

Author:Paul Solman

“Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.”

“This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.”

“There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.”

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Author:Maxim Gorky

“The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world”

Men World Children Might Position This World Kingdoms Aliens This Society

Book:The Secret of Childhood

Source: The Secret of Childhood

“Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told - sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception.”

Stories Dream Form Turns Language Progress Style Source Satisfaction Sexuality Oppression Exception Vehicle Exploitation Tokens This Society Drudgery

Author:Herbert Marcuse

“Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society tends to reduce, and even absorb opposition (the qualitative difference!) in the realm of politics and higher culture, so it does in the instinctual sphere. The result is the atrophy of the mental organs for grasping the contradictions and the alternatives and, in the one remaining dimension of technological rationality, the Happy Consciousness comes to prevail.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“One of the things that I think makes it hard in this society for us to tell the truth is the kind of conventional relationship to adversity. Things aren't always easy and rather than being taught to have kindness to ourselves and others in the light of that we're taught something very different; that it's wrong and rejected - that's a lot of conditioning to step away from.”

Thinking Kind Different Hard Light Easy Steps Kindness Taught Truth Is Adversity Telling The Truth Conventional Rejected Conditioning This Society

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.”

“We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.”

Ifs Thinking Men Real Use Social Violence Middle Rate Violent Admire Chains Thoughtful Lions Tigers Predator Real Men This Society Second Rate Food Chain Hesitant Panthers

Book:The Longings of Women: A Novel

Source: The Longings of Women: A Novel

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.”

Mean Has Beens Able Health Profit Seeking Corporations Transformed Venture Commodity Monopoly This Society

Author:Angela Davis

“I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.”

Government Streets Wall Type Becoming Not Sure Destructive Suspects This Society Animosity Schism

Author:Alan Greenspan

“This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.”

Soul Poor This Society Relief Society

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“I am a great believer in what we've been told time and time again by people like Joseph Campbell, "find your bliss." Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it. Find your own way and make your own contribution. Find a way to make a contribution to this society because God knows we need contributions from the coming generation. This planet and this civilization is in need. I see it as a time of need.”

People Knows Way Needs Generations Planets Civilization Believer Pursue Bliss Contribution Nurture God Knows This Society Time Of Need Old Time

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: how should this society work? How should relationships among people work? The exploration is: who am I, what am I doing?”

People Should Children Seems Young Share Figures Profound Exploration Toys Exploring Very Deep Young Children This Society

Author:Alison Gopnik

“I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.”

Firsts Half Periods Racism Inequality Rising This Society

Author:William Julius Wilson

“This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.”

Consistently Backwards This Society New Future

Author:David Ervine

“Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.”

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Book:The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Source: The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

“It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.”

Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma

“Consider children as a beat. Clearly not an institution of power, children don't vote and they don't pass taxes. They have no money, and they don't buy newspapers or watch the news on television. Consequently, children are one of the most neglected segments of society in the news, except as a subtopic of other power beats such as education, family, and crime. Children are in serious trouble in this society, which means the foundation of our society is in trouble, which means the future is in trouble, and that is news.”

Mean Children Watches Trouble Crime Television Serious Taxes News Beats Vote Institutions Foundation Newspapers Our Society Neglected No Money This Society

Author:Joan Konner

“Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension of my dreams and fantasies, there's a tendency to think of them as immature. I live in a mature world. The majority of the people in this society live with delusions and illusions much more irrational and hurtful than mine. They deal with mortality, with fantasies relating to heaven and hell, and they don't really deal with their problems at all.”

“By that time this society is going to be completely different for one thing. Your own son or your own son's son is not going to have the needs for money that you feel you have now. The society itself will be less dependent on money and currency to get along.”

Needs Feels Different One Thing Son Dependent Currency This Society

Author:Warren Beatty

“The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.”

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Book:On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings

Source: On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings

“I haven't given it (achieving 3,000 hits) much thought. I was taught a certain approach, how to come to the ballpark. I try not to do too much thinking about things like that. In this society we measure success in different ways. Three thousand (hits) represents success over a career, not a season. It'll be nice to get to that point.”

“If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.”

People Ifs Today America Black Born Mass Skins Regard Prison Black People This Society Predicaments Plight America Today Inmates Black Skin

Author:Malcolm X

“If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!”

People Ifs War Whole Change Laughing Misery Israel Nonsense Vietnam Egypt Ecstatic This Society

Author:Rajneesh

“In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.”

“Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that we have internalized ourselves inside black communities. You look at many of the prominent black people in this society who have been able to do well. Many have been lighter-skinned.”

People Way Wells Looks Has Beens Light Able Black Community White Destructive Black People Allegiance Lighters Prominent This Society Black Community

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Facts Life Is Gun Built Warrior Mentality Way Of Thinking This Society

Book:Conversations with Isabel Allende

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende

“I love individuals. I think people are terrific as I meet and get to know them. I like imagination. I like the freedom that this society manages to parcel out to us in the midst of the rest of what they do to you. I also like thinking about the fact that the atoms in me are the same atoms that are in all the rest of the universe, and that every one of those atoms came from the middle of a star. In other words, it's only me out there.”

People Thinking Knows Facts Universe Individual Stars Imagination Middle Manage Midst Atoms Terrific This Society Parcel

Author:George Carlin

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”

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Book:Beyond This Horizon

Source: Beyond This Horizon

“We live in this society where you must constantly be reinventing yourself. The big question is what are you doing next. The only thing they want is composed of these three elements: They want you to do it the exact same way because they want more of it; but they want it to be totally different; and they want it to be better. That's all you have to do. You just have to do something that's exactly the same, totally different, and better.”

Way Want Different Bigs Three Next Elements This Society Big Questions Reinventing Reinventing Yourself

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“If I walk on the street, if I go to a restaurant, people come to me and say: "Can we take a photo together? Can you give me your autograph?" They would bring their expensive Armani or Prada wallet to sign. Other people who are desperate show me a photo of their dead daughter and ask: Can you support me? I tell them: How can I? Morally, of course, I sympathize with you. But I cannot support you and you cannot support me. This is the condition of this society. We are separated.”

“I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America”

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Author:Robert Stone

“I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola's. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.”

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Author:John Adams

“I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.”

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Author:Joanna Newsom

“During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman was elected in a very left-wing constituency in Paris. The French don't seem to be ready to elect people from a visible minority. So maybe this society is not ready to have a woman from a foreign background in this important post. That really surprised us, because we thought we had evolved.”

People Important Seems Left Ready Election Wings Backgrounds Posts Paris Candidates Visible Minorities Not Ready Left Wing This Society African Women

Author:Patrick Gaubert

“When you consider the overpopulation in this world ... homosexuality is completely underrated in this society.”

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Author:Doug Stanhope

“In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time!”

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Author:Danica Patrick

“Only sometimes I try to think about it in context. When I think about the context of, "Oh, I'm this or that," in this society, that's one of the terms.”

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Author:Jeff Vespa

“Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art.”

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Author:Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”

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