#soc

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#exercise #freedom #humanism #integral #limited

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. ↗

— George Saunders

#been #capitalist #capitalist society #course #done

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#applicable #case #exclusively #involve #languages

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#belonging #between #category #common #creates

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#dealing #eradicate #fact #faculty #idea

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#flawed #invisible #negative #our #perfect

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#handling #individual #manage #needs #people

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#cause #disorders #know #modern #modern society

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#fine #how #know #maturity #measure