#soc

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#disturbances #fearful #mask #more #never

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#harassment #impunity #inflict #kind #man

The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier to see something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow. When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#beauty

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#duty #only #people #secure #social

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#gloomy #go #grief #him #himself

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#also #day #deal #emperors #everywhere

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#inner #inner peace #measured #money #peace

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#dreams #extra #into #margins #our

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#assimilation #avenue #important #into #like

I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#around #go #go home #home #i