#soc

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. ↗

— George Eliot

#excessive #i #literary #offence #production

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

#feel #hardly #however #living #may

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#effecting #functions #life #many #our

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#also #beautiful #brings #construction #dash

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. ↗

— David Bohm

#ancient times #back #between #body #evolved

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on. ↗

— David Bohm

#any #body #corporation #department #function

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society. ↗

— David Bohm

#fertile #function #generally #harmonious #help

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#class #important #middle #middle class #overestimated

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#areas #asean #association #because #been

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service. ↗

— Julian Bond

#gratification #immediate #justice #many #need