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Quotes About Society

For the first time on Planet Earth (in 1964 America), a nation was made up of more college students than farmers. An unheard-of 42% of high school graduates sought higher education.
~ Rick Perlstein
The ideal politician is an ordinary representative of his class with extraordinary abilities.
~ Rick Perlstein
How did Nixonland end? It has not ended yet.
~ Rick Perlstein
Nixonland is what happens when these two groups try to occupy a country together. By the end of the 1960s, Nixonland came to encompass the entire political culture of the United States. It would, in fact, for the next fifty years.
~ Rick Perlstein
the task of preserving capitalism was too important to leave to the capitalists.
~ Rick Perlstein
Chits knew no ideology.
~ Rick Perlstein
The task of defending capitalism was still important to leave to the capitalists.
~ Rick Perlstein
Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.
~ Rick Perry
But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
~ Rick Perry
I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.
~ Rick Perry
Discouragement often comes from focusing on the wrong things. It also derives from a lack of patience, which is a virtue we are losing in our society.
~ Rick Pitino
Jesus made it very clear in His discourse about the end of the age in Matthew 24 that deception and delusion in society — and even in certain sectors of the Church — will be the primary sign that we are near the end of the age.
~ Rick Renner
Before the antichrist can be welcomed with wide-open arms by the world, a change in society's mentality must first take place.
~ Rick Renner
It's our responsibility to take an uncompromising stance on God's Word and to serve as the restraining force that impedes deception's forward progress in society so it cannot take hold and entrench itself in people's minds as "just the way things are.
~ Rick Renner
I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.
~ Rick Santorum
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.
~ Rick Santorum
People everywhere hear the excuse "there's not enough money". In actuality, there is enough money… just different priorities. New stadium, heathcare for all, faster trains, extravagant cathedral, subsidized education, tax cuts, next-generation bomber … each society makes different choices according to its priorities.
~ Rick Steves
We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
~ Rick Warren
I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.
~ Rick Warren
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.
~ Ricky Gervais
PC culture isn't killing comedy, it's driving it. As it always did.
~ Ricky Gervais
I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it`s 3% good, 97% stupid.
~ Ridley Scott
During war times not only one should himself take part in it but also encourage the courageous to do so by creating awareness, zeal and enthusiasm for the war in the society.
~ Rig Veda
Luckless is that country in which the symbols of procreation are held in horror!' he wrote, 'while the agents of destruction are revered!
~ Rikki Ducornet