#soc

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#amazing #being #body #choice #continually

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods. ↗

— Whitley Strieber

#associated #completion #egyptian #ends #every

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#knew #misunderstood #much #often #others

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#instructed #only #society #solitude

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#america #called #darwinism #did #embraced

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#distinctions #level #matter #only #own

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#american history #called #darwinism #embraced #exist

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#device #educated #male #many #simple

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#dealing #extreme #generally #ills #social

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#about #action #been #brought #carried