#soc

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#generating #great #joy #multiplying #opportunities

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#field #gospel #illusion #interest #leaders

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#desires #flourished #good #held #humanity

We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#because #being #blown #event #frightened

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#benefits #democrats #failed #fight #gamble

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#politics #society #courage

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics. ↗

— Li Peng

#choose #conditions #countries #development #light

Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#any #architect #bottom #certainly #child

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions. ↗

— Taylor Phinney

#basketball #big #football #football games #games

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#adolescence #aside #authentic #display #experience