#soc

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #america #asked #come #i

Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals. ↗

— Patty Murray

#believe #dollars #first #first step #fundamental

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society. ↗

— Pervez Musharraf

#dead #doubt #families #greater #i

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#also #because #bit #breaks #complete

There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#indian #leagues #set #soccer #up

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#being #believe #choice #conditioning #environment

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age. ↗

— B.F. Skinner

#interests #society #age

Thinking globally does not mean thinking socially. ↗

— Ilkin Santak

#communism #equal-rights #global-thinking #human-rights #liberalism

We don’t know who is healthy and who is not just by looking at their body shape. ↗

— Cheryl-Ann Webster

#body-image #diet-industry #diets #eating-disorders #self-esteem

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#centuries #laws #legal #living #people