“In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?”
— Jessica Savitch
Author: Jessica Savitch
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Society is becoming less and less transparent.
“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.”
— Georg Henrik von Wright
Author: Georg Henrik von Wright
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The instinct of nearly all societies is
“The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.”
— Jean Cocteau
Author: Jean Cocteau
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I got a lot of things that
“I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled – all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you – stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.”
— Anne Lamott
Author: Anne Lamott
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages
“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.”
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The world is governed more by appearance
“The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.”
— Daniel Webster
Author: Daniel Webster
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When a nation goes down, or a
“When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.”
— Carl Sandburg
Author: Carl Sandburg
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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the
“Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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As long as you have a system
“As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.”
— David Korten
Author: David Korten
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as
“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.”
— Leon Trotsky
Author: Leon Trotsky
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Women have face-lifts in a society in
“Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.”
— Naomi Wolf
Author: Naomi Wolf
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