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Society Quotes
"Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you."
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"Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!"
8
"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."
7
"Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?"
7
"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."
7
"Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations."
7
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."
6
"Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization."
6
"Solitude is better than the society of evil persons."
6
"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment."
6
"Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society."
6
"In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes."
6
"But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities."
6
"Latinos must be proud. We have the same rights in the U.S. as anybody else. Instead of crying and getting upset about visa problems and having our families come join us, go fight for your rights. Make yourself a productive individual in the society."
6
"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty."
6
"Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks."
6
"Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed."
5
"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society."
5
"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."
5
"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
5
"You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks."
5
"On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance."
5
"Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past."
5
"There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences."
5
"What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?"
5
"It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."
4
"So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one."
4
"Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed."
4
"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"
3
"Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how."
3
"I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America."
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"Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them."
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