#soc

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#carelessly #change #cigarette #especially #even

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes. ↗

— Shiri Appleby

#brother #childhood #except #had #i

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. ↗

— Aristotle

#because #either #god #himself #live

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#been #center #different #different ways #drag

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#engineer #ever #i #i am #nerdy

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#barbarians #distributes #into #itself #just

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#american society #annual #arose #confusion #conventions

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#civil #civil society #created #failure #greatest

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#any #change #continuing #decision #dominant

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#diversity #each #ethnic #fabric #large