#soc

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. ↗

— John Paul Stevens

#civilized society #decency #evolving #executing #inconsistent

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#free #free society #safe #unpopular #where

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#free society #safe #society #unpopular #where

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#i #rock #rock star #soccer #star

I don't have any social life or anything. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#anything #i #life #social #social life

Tell the Truth. Make it Special. Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown. Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones. ↗

— Justin Allison

#automotive #social-history #life

I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China didn't create Social Security, Medicare. China isn't spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn't have. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#china #conservative #create #dollars #donald

I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#conservative #cultural #cultural issues #daniels #deeper

We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#anybody #because #becomes #care #come

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent. ↗

— George Stigler

#appeal #became #become #economists #even