#soc

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#care #get #grow #health #health care

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#agree #association #beans #both #control

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#being #bring #else #girl #might

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone. ↗

— William Weld

#approach #country #democrats #i #security

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#first #form #members #must #task

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#incessant #marriage #stand #stand up #strain

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #china #citizen #effort #equal

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#become #chinese #common #common sense #essential

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#art #art world #calls #chinese #create

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#architecture #bureaucrats #complicated #criticism #functions