"I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy."
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"Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God."
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"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life."
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"Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top."
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"No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies."
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"Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot."
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"To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members."
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"There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed."
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"I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected."
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"Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?"
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"I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations."
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"Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still."
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"A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology."
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"Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society."
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"That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist."
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"Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real."
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"Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force."
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"Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it."
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"It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge."
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"Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society."
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