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Quotes About Society

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.
~ Yiyun Li
contemporaries,
~ Yiyun Li
It was not about keeping a man; it was a lesson on how not to become an ugly woman.
~ Yiyun Li
balance of the social energy, one said, and the other nodded and added that, indeed, to climb up in this country, you'd have to use someone else as a stepping stone. Neither bothered to take up his own past, as both understood that to be safe and sound in their age, they had had their share of bodies underneath their feet to keep them afloat, and those stories were no longer relevant, their shame and guilt absolved by old age.
~ Yiyun Li
I had only wanted to stay invisible, but there as elsewhere invisibility is a luxury.
~ Yiyun Li
There is no guarantee that networked information technology will lead to the improvements in innovation, freedom, and justice that I suggest are possible. That is a choice we face as a society. The way we develop will, in significant measure, depend on choices we make in the next decade or so.
~ Yochai Benkler
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
~ Yogi Berra
The work of the poet has always been to shine a bright light on the absurdities of society, challenging hypocrisy and greed, and presenting the tools of change. (Donovan)
~ Yoko Ono
FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP Youth unemployment has become an urgent challenge facing the global society. In 2011, nearly 75 million youth aged 15 to 24 were unemployed worldwide. The majority of the world's youth (87%) living in developing countries "are often underemployed and working in the informal economy under poor conditions," according to the 2012 The World Youth Report of the United Nations (United
~ Yong Zhao
THE NEED FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP Youth unemployment has become an urgent challenge facing the global society. In 2011, nearly 75 million youth aged 15 to 24 were unemployed worldwide. The majority of the world's youth (87%) living in developing countries "are often underemployed and working in the informal economy under poor conditions," according to the 2012 The World Youth Report of the United Nations (United
~ Yong Zhao
The more people flock together, the more isolated they become
~ Yoshihiro Tatsumi
You're way behind the times. Doesn't matter how handy it is. People get rid of anything old. That's modern life for ya.
~ Yoshihiro Tatsumi
I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.
~ young brigham
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
~ young brigham ii
I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.
~ young wm paul iv
I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
~ Youssou N'Dour
Why, when discussing China today, do I always return to the Cultural Revolution? That's because these two eras are so interrelated: even though the state of society now is very different from then, some psychological elements remain strikingly similar. After participating in one mass movement during the Cultural Revolution, for example, we are now engaged in another: economic development.
~ Yu Hua
Benim endi?em ?u ki, kand?rmak aleni bir ?ekilde insanlar?n ya?am ?ekli haline geldi?inde, bu ister bir ki?i olsun, ister bir ülke, herkes aldatman?n kurban? haline gelir.
~ Yu Hua
and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man's only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.
~ Yukio Mishima
The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal
~ Yukio Mishima
My reason for proposing the game also lay in my inverted sense of social duty: in short, I felt that I must not fawn upon the girls, but must somehow give them a hard time.
~ Yukio Mishima