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social systems
«We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Manners
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bawdy, caste, castes, caste system, crooks, privileged, social system, social systems
«The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
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access, celebrity, efficiency, fetish, fetishes, gains, gain ground, ground ball, holes, hole in the ground, knock, President of, President of the, President of the United, President of the United States, small white, social system, social systems, thereby, The Professional, The Star, to the point
«Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.»
Author: Carly Fiorina
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
conjunction, conjunctions, digital, divide, economic system, operate, operating system, political system, political systems, so-called, social system, social systems, The So
«No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
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abolish, deliver, directs, Human condition, political system, political systems, social system, social systems, The Absolute, The Human Condition, The Social, thirst, vice versa
«Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse»
«What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
discrimination, inequalities, inequality, reform, social order, Social reform, social rights, social system, social systems
«He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain.»
Author: John Updike
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acute, flay, flayed, flays, sensation, sensitivity, social system, social systems, touch system, usage, usefulness
«What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| About:
Capitalism,
Society
| Keywords:
arrangement, capitalism, greed, set up, social organization, social structure, social system, social systems, structured
«America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
accustomed, customs, destined, One Nation, peopled, political system, political systems, professes, professing, social system, social systems, tenor, Tenors
«Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
ageism, arbitrarily, drives, elderly, livelihood, odious, overburden, overburdened, productive, racism, retirement, scars, security system, sever, severed, severing, severs, sexism, Social Security, social system, social systems, squandered, squandering, squanders, strains