#soc

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#add #aid #aims #artificial #consequences

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place. ↗

— Brian Cox

#everyone #feudal #place #problem #society

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view. ↗

— Evan Davis

#conservative #i #i can #kind #left-wing

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#laureate #many #nobel #obligation #peace

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#benefits #cut #fine #fine print #future

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#control #creating #creator #endowed #freedom

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#adopt #considerable #either #else #fads

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#big business #business #doing #doing good #environment

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#becomes #beginning #certain #certain way #eventually

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#many #over #society #values