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Letter "S" » society
«In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy»
Author: Ivan Illich
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Keywords:
addiction,
addictions,
consumer,
Consumer Society,
envy,
inevitably,
kinds,
prisoners,
slaves,
society,
The Prisoner of
«It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.»
«It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.»
«It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
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Biochemist,
Writer)
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About:
Change
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Keywords:
account,
any longer,
as it is,
continuing,
decision,
dominant,
factor,
factor in,
inevitable,
longer,
not only,
sensible,
society,
take account,
take into account,
taking
«I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.»
Author: Maya Angelou
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Poet)
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Keywords:
and then,
asexual,
black,
blacker,
Black a,
black people,
Black woman,
by the way,
capable,
caught,
continue,
difficulty,
end man,
faces,
fat,
fats,
fatter,
fattest,
forgive,
forgiveness,
For every,
glory,
glorying,
hell,
hold on,
human being,
inevitable,
injured,
injuring,
in the end,
known,
larger,
large white,
learned,
liking,
mirror,
mistake,
mistakes,
most unattractive,
myself,
one of the largest,
our own,
overcome,
poor,
Real Men,
rough,
rougher,
roughest,
roughs,
sees,
self taught,
sexual,
society,
sorrier,
sorriest,
sorry,
sure,
Teach,
The Blacks,
The End,
The Mirror,
the threat of,
thin,
think about,
thinned,
thinner,
thinnest,
thinning,
thins,
Threats,
unattractive,
white,
whited,
whiter,
white woman,
whiting,
years,
young
«It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief»
«If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
afternoons,
appear,
both,
left,
living,
sell,
sell out,
shall,
society,
sure,
worth,
would-be
«It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
abhorrence,
anxious,
expect,
mortal,
opposition,
oppositions,
persecution,
persecutions,
reform,
reformer,
reforming,
society
«I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.»
«Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.»