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Society
«Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.»
Author: John Arbuthnot Fisher
| About:
Advertising,
Society,
Value
| Keywords:
corrupted, equals, insistence
«My issue is race. I feel black people nowadays have to conform to this one ideal. We all have to be the same. We all have to be hard and ghetto and listen to only one genre of music which would be Rap and R&B. And if one of us steps out of the mold we're not black anymore. Well, that's dumb. When did music determine your racial background? Or a musical instrument? I can't believe the dumb things people say when you're doing something different. I mean, it would be ok if music and how you dress and act actually determined your race, but the last time I checked it was your genes that determined your color. And I think anyone who chooses to believe in this fabrication is ignorant. Isn't this what the Civil Rights Movement was about, equality? Didn't Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak of diversity and how we should hold hands at the table of brotherhood? Well how are you supposed to do this when we try to conform to this idea. Not conforming doesn't make you have less pride in your race but it's helping make a window of opportunities for your race. Well, as for me, I'm stepping out of the box and going forward to be who I am, and if people disagree, f**k them. I believe this will bring me closer to the goal that god ordained for me. And doing this doesn't mean I'm selling out my race, but it means I'm not selling out who I am.»
«No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society»
Author: Naomi Wolf
| About:
Being a Woman,
Myths,
Society,
Women
| Keywords:
individualize, individualized, individualizes, individualizing, myth, observations, undermine, undermined, undermines, undermining
«Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.»
Author: Swami Nirmalananda
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
cage in, decorate, decorated, decorates, decorating, engaged, imprisoned, imprisons, kept, modern, modern society, polishes, polishing, The Cage
«No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Art,
Danger,
Death and dying,
Fear,
Life,
Society,
Violence
| Keywords:
Bad art, brutish, continual, letters, nastier, nastiest, nasty, short letter, solitary, violent, violent death
«No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable»
«Music is always a commentary on society.»
Author: Frank Zappa
(Composer, Guitarist, Satirist, Song Writer)
| About:
Music,
Society
| Keywords:
commentary
«More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.»
«No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| About:
Right,
Society
| Keywords:
background, backgrounds, Background and, ethnic, ethnic background, in the background, singled, treatment, unfair, unkind, unkindest