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«I think U.S. citizens are trained at a young age to fully inhale the system, the rhetoric and ideologies surrounding democracy, capitalism, religion, family life...If the wizard is exposed, and we realize we?ve been lied to, it?s frightening, like political vertigo or instantaneous sobriety. After all, once you?ve seen the light, there?s no going back and, at that point, whether you like it or not, you are accountable to truth and responsible for creating change.»
«If you have any doubt that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names»
Author: Elaine Gill
| About:
Men and Women,
Society
| Keywords:
controlled, index, indexes, indices, names, quotations, the Index, volume
«I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of boates & Vessels, dressd and adornd with all imaginabe Pomp: but, above all, the Thrones, Arches, Pageants & other representations, stately barges of the Lord Major, & Companies, with varius Inventions, musique, & Peales of Ordnance from both the vessels & shore, going to meet & Conduct the new Queene from Hampton Court to White-hall, at the first time of her Coming to Towne, exceeding in my opinion, all the Venetian Bucentoro?s &c on the Ascention, when they go to Espouse the Adriatic: his Majestie & the Queene, came in an antique-shaped open Vessell, covered with a State or Canopy of Cloth of Gold, made in forme of a Cupola, supported with high Corinthian Pillars, wreathed with flowers, festoones & Gyrlands: I was in our new-built Vessell, sailing amongst them»
Author: John Evelyn
(Writer)
| About:
History,
Literature,
Society
| Keywords:
Adriatic, antique, antiques, arches, canopy, cloth, companies, Considering, Corinthian, cupola, espouse, espoused, Hampton, innumerable, magnificent, ordnance, pageant, pageants, pillars, pomp, representations, sailing vessel, stately, supported, Thames, The Adriatic, thrones, Venetian, wreathe, wreathed
«How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?»
«Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.»
«How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.»
Author: Dennis Prager
| About:
Aggression,
Society,
Violence
| Keywords:
aggression, channels, glorification, immoral
«Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Historians,
Society
| Keywords:
archaeologist, archaeologists, Historians
«If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Grief,
Society
| Keywords:
croak, croaking, gloomy, stifled
«God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Change,
Country,
Hate,
Society,
Vanity
| Keywords:
conceited, old country, puerile, senility, sophisticated
«If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.»
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