#soc

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars! ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#cars #difference #drives #example #for example

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#had #i #love #love songs #made

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best. ↗

— Rob Morrow

#awakens #best #better #conquest #contribution

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#better #deadline #exercise #feel #get

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#get #involved #policy #social #social policy

If you've never come across Soccer Saturday, imagine a Samuel Beckett play in which a slick circus-master gets four retired clowns to describe a performance to punters stuck outside the Big Top. You will still be nowhere close to the absurcist drama that unfolds for six straight hours each Saturday on Sky Sports 1 ↗

— Esquire Magazine

#imagination

Il ne s'agit point de t'offusquer de ce que l'un diffère de l'autre, de ce que les aspirations de l'un s'opposent aux aspirations de l'autre, de ce que le langage de l'un ne soit point le langage de l'autre, il s'agît de t'en réjouir. Car si te voilà créateur tu batiras un temple de portée plus haute qui sera leur commune mesure. Mais je dis aveugle celui-là qui s'imagine créer s'il démonte la cathédrale et aligne dans l'ordre par rang de taille les pierres l'une après l'autre. (chapitre LXXV) ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#society #imagination

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #america #asked #come #i

Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals. ↗

— Patty Murray

#believe #dollars #first #first step #fundamental

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society. ↗

— Pervez Musharraf

#dead #doubt #families #greater #i