“It was this society and culture that among other things – including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe – attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.”
— Samuel P. Huntington
Author: Samuel P. Huntington
Category: society
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“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Author: Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”
— Erich Fromm
Author: Erich Fromm
Category: society
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“A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.”
— Robert Bork
Author: Robert Bork
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“If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.”
— Sargent Shriver
Author: Sargent Shriver
Category: society
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“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”
— John W. Gardner
Author: John W. Gardner
Category: society
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“There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national culture is theirs, to take ownership of it, and enjoy the privileges of that, and those who are completely disfranchised, those – for example – who will never be taken to the theatre to see Shakespeare.”
— Richard Eyre
Author: Richard Eyre
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“I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.”
— Hillary Clinton
Author: Hillary Clinton
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“A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.”
— Kevin Kelly
Author: Kevin Kelly
Category: society
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“In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: society
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“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”
— Warren Buffett
Author: Warren Buffett
Category: society
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