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Quotes About Society

In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as fully established that sometimes between the socialist working women and those belonging to the middle class, there may be antagonisms.
~ Clara Zetkin
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
~ Peter L. Berger
I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.
~ Alan Bennett
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
~ Ernest Mandel
So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.
~ Frederick Pollock
Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.
~ Edward Carpenter
The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
~ John Grierson
I think most people would love for us to be a socialist society.
~ Boots Riley
Communism is a way of thinking. Socialism is wimpy communism. When you don't have the courage to become a communist, you become a socialist.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Democracy in a socialist country is freedom in chains.
~ Victor Banerjee
'Socialize' means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
~ Judith Butler
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
~ Natsuo Kirino
There's no socially acceptable middle age.
~ Thomas Jane
We're socially constructed to hide our flaws, and that breeds pain for a lot of people.
~ Whitney Cummings
If schooling becomes little more than preparation for the job market and consumption, it cannot produce socially responsible and altruistic citizens.
~ Guy Standing
Fiction is socially meaningful.
~ David Guterson
The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
~ Clifford Geertz
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.
~ Antony Beevor
You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.
~ Eduardo Paes
I think it should be socially acceptable for men to like 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt.
~ Mike Posner