#soc

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#get #law #nature #out #pervading

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#best #commons #destination #each #freedom

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#coercion #create #produce #responsibility #social

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#because #deal #dreaming #films #finance

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out. ↗

— Roy Harper

#better #culture #ethnically #felt #i

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#basic #commissions #democratic #democratic society #evolving

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#almost #automatically #human #increase #misery

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#ask #cripples #demand #else #everyone

Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#accept #everyone #fact #gay #gay rights

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product. ↗

— Brian Harris

#creators #demand #encouraging #failure #higher