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There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society. Hugh Hefner

Me Quality Writing Society Press Out About Almost Much Playboy

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. Hugh Kingsmill

Society Assumption Everyone Alike Alive No-One Based

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness. Hugh Miller

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't. Hugo Weaving

You Phone Difficult Society Thinking Increasingly Else Everyone Everyone Else Because Becomes Got Exist Get Moved Where Should Keep

The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules. Huston Smith

History Society Rules Those Ours Rigid Religions Propensity More Only Almost Buddhism Most Forbid Forbidden Known Hinduism Permissive Western Up Than The Only Thing Asia Asian Notion Teachers Now Ever Play Thing Progeny

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. Iain Banks

You Legal People Situation Society Slippery System Slippery Slope Slope Torture Tortured Trivial Allow Instantly Almost Soon Very Legal System Get Any Being Where Reasons

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives. Iain Duncan Smith

Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed. Ian Hacking

Genius Stage Down Society Settings Else Dramas Out Composed Dress Structure Facts He Go Hitherto Anyone Anyone Else Orderly Which Little Clues Confrontation Them Turn Noticed Series Hardly

I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually? Ian Rankin

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society. Ibrahim Babangida

Freedom Me You Liberty Military Society Our Way Complex Would Lay Put Mission Sought Were Regime Ask Foundations

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions. Ibrahim Babangida

Society Assumptions Our Our Choice Framework Ways Those Abandoning Seek Driven Had Supporting Economy Institutions Looked Policy Dictated Reform Hitherto Transcending Either Choice Fundamental Nigeria

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat. Ice Cube

I was always made aware of inequality in society, that there was a class system. In Somalia, we have clan structures. My mother's family is ethnically not Somali, and so we spoke often about what it meant to be 'other' in that way. Ilhan Omar

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film. Imtiaz Ali

I think 'Pose' is really a groundbreaking television show because we're telling stories about family and love through people that society has always believed were incapable of having that or being a part of that. Indya Moore

Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father. Ingmar Bergman

Life God Construction Father King Society Top Hierarchical Obedient About Freeing Souls Up Human Then Creating Slaves

On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living. Ingrid Betancourt

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting. Ingrid Newkirk

Death Best Justice Fight Ending Nothing Society Prolonged Running Only Civilized Civilized Society Never Demand Knowing Call Forced Were Bulls End Up Die Endure Themselves Us Painful Why Defend

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected. Irrfan Khan

Good Society Respected Sign Talent Where

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? Irv Kupcinet

God You Society Elvis Say Alive Says About Dead

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