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I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.
Lee Harvey Oswald
I Am
Society
Am
Decadent
Where
Worker
Workers
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Communist
Lived
Slaves
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
Carroll O'Connor
Society
Given
Like
Michael
Rewards
Staggering
Capital
Persons
Create
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Who
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
Xun Kuang
Teacher
Obey
Achieve
First
Society
Changed
Humility
Guided
Rules
Only
Ritual
He
Observe
Instructions
Principles
Courtesy
Person
Order
Conventions
Then
Should
Therefore
Our job as artists, we believe, is not to make changes in society. We don't have the ability to do that. We reflect life. We are the mirror of the society to look into. Our job is to raise questions, but we have no answers.
John Kani
Life
Job
Mirror
Reflect
Believe
Society
Changes
Our
Ability
Look
Make
Answers
Questions
Artists
Raise
Writing 'If Chloe Can' has taken me on an amazing journey: from launching the event at Downing Street, to a performance to 1,000 inner-city school girls at a West End theatre, then to an audience of hundreds more at the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Karla Crome
Journey
Me
Theatre
Writing
School
Amazing
Girl
Chemistry
Society
Hundreds
Launching
More
Taken
Performance
Audience
West
End
Chloe
Then
Downing
Event
Street
Royal
Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.
Xavier Dolan
Rights
Fight
Eyes
Women
Battle
Will
Men
Society
Define
Scale
Pretend
Born
True
Reactionary
Cliche
Feminists
Privileged
Themselves
Things
Every elite seeks its own perpetuation, of course, but that project is uniquely difficult in a society that's formally democratic and egalitarian and colorblind.
Ross Douthat
Own
Difficult
Every
Society
Project
Seeks
Colorblind
Democratic
Course
Perpetuation
Egalitarian
Uniquely
Elite
RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
Frances O'Grady
Change
Better
Inspire
Challenge
Values
Believe
Society
Others
Our
Way
Define
Possibility
Willing
He
Because
Audiences
His
Them
Turn
Us
Figure
Connect
Unique
Compelling
Kennedy
For the offenders completing these short sentences whose lives are destabilised, and for society which incurs a heavy financial and social cost, prison simply isn’t working.
David Gauke
Financial
Prison
Society
Completing
Cost
Simply
Offenders
Short
Heavy
Which
Social
Sentences
Working
Whose
Lives
You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is that you start to forget about cars and jobs and families and weather and politicians - and all the things that make up a society.
Chelsea Manning
You
World
Car
Darkest
Weather
Politicians
Society
Solitary
Relevant
Solitary Confinement
Jobs
About
Outside
Part
Make
Make Up
Up
Families
Forget
Confinement
Anymore
Things
Start
The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it.
Roger Scruton
Conservative
Own
Society
Defends
Within
Understands
His
Loves
Who
I feel that this nation should open its doors to any person that would like to contribute to this society.
Wayne Messam
Nation
Doors
Society
Would
I Feel
Open
Feel
Like
Contribute
Person
Any
Should
I thought to myself: What are the most important problems that society faces that I could contribute to? And it was clear that finding new sustainable sources of energy was the most important.
Frances Arnold
Myself
Problems
Thought
Important
Energy
Society
Finding
Faces
Could
Clear
New
Most
Sources
Contribute
The Most Important
Sustainable
There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will explode in our society if we do not address the huge amount of suffering in our midst.
Marianne Williamson
Suffering
Money
Will
Daughter
Society
Our
Address
I Can
Horrors
Could
Buffer
Make
Huge
Huge Amount
Which
Midst
Explode
Amount
Sports is one of those few things left in our society where, as soon as you step on the court, or get in the ring, you are who you are.
Justin Lin
You
Sports
Few
Society
Our
Those
Ring
Step
Soon
Court
Left
Get
Few Things
Where
Who
Things
New Labour has created a society increasingly oppressed by the worry of personal debt.
John McDonnell
Society
Increasingly
Worry
New
Oppressed
Debt
Labour
Personal
Created
As I've been saying for decades, as long as racism exists in society, it will exist in all facets of society. Until we eradicate it from society, football will be like any other industry.
John Barnes
Saying
Racism
Will
Long
Society
Other
Facets
Football
Like
Until
Industry
Eradicate
Been
Exist
Exists
Decades
Any
America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.
Marco Rubio
People
Society
Everyday
Extraordinary
Everyday People
Extraordinary Things
Our
Fabric
Woven
America
Did
Story
Who
Deep
Things
I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.
Uzodinma Iweala
Black
Think
Society
Too
I Think
Definition
American
Often
Producing more reams of detailed policies that have marginal and limited effects on our society is futile.
John McDonnell
Society
Our
Futile
Detailed
More
Policies
Limited
Effects
Producing
Marginal
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
Quincy Jones
Day
Family
Musicians
World
Society
One Day
Hoped
Could
Different
Whole
Different World
Belong
Started
Imagining
We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.
Martin O'Malley
Freedom
Respect
People
Society
Way
Ours
Religions
Pluralistic
Diverse
Laws
Only
Protect
Equally
Faiths
Different
Different Faiths
Different Religions
Forward
Many
As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Work
Hard Work
Joy
Society
Neglected
Diligent
Structure
Shifted
Been
Urban
Hard
Necessity
This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.
Marco Rubio
Today
History
Made
First
Country
Society
Our
Diminished
Stay
Threatening
Be The First
Both
Both Parties
Road
Parties
Greatest
Greatest Country
Greatness
American
Going
Human
Being
Children
Decisions
Human History
Inherit
Many
Washington
Now
Ever
Right
In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.
Uzodinma Iweala
Face
Society
Our
Obama
Face-To-Face
Hussein
General
Idea
Feels
Discomfort
Difference
Barack
Us
Brings
If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation for trouble.
Ken Loach
You
Political
Trouble
Situation
Believe
Society
Section
Part
Discourse
Where
Large
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