#societies

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. ↗

— Guy Debord

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Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality. ↗

— Helen Clark

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The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. ↗

— Karl Marx

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I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. ↗

— Tom McClintock

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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

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Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable. ↗

— Lord Robertson

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All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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