Societies Quotes

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People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies. — Helen Fisher
Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens… — Evgeny Morozov
Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow. — Geoff Mulgan
Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do. — Geoff Mulgan
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing… — Marcel Duchamp
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's… — Salman Rushdie
In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental… — Cornel West
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." (From a speech read on video on… — Aung San Suu Kyi
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example,… — Alexander Hamilton
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries. — Anais Nin
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct… — Amy Tan
If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something… — Robert Wright
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to… — Aldous Huxley
The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life… — Tony Kushner
It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies… — Edward Said
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies. — Tim Burton
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy â€” not democracy as the right to go… — Vandana Shiva
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police… — Ron Paul
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's… — Eric Hoffer
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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