#soc

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. ↗

— Harry Browne

#attract #avoid #because #earn #elements

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#away #come #control #hear #how

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#backgrounds #been #could #different #five

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#communities #countries #development #economic #environmental

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#given #god #live #permissive #society

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#civilization #deserted #fear #helpless #make

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. ↗

— James Buchan

#ago #answer #belated #britain #british

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#behavior #better #direction #drift #hang

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#better #better off #body #degree #inform

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#french #joined #member #party #political