#soc

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#bubonic #character #extraordinarily #fact #ideologies

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#allow #freedom #i #i think #irresponsible

But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#matter #meet #open #open society #our

Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security. ↗

— Susan Rice

#any #come #deal #democracy #expectation

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#bring #change #essential #far #human

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. ↗

— Laura Riding

#art #creative #indeed #referring #social

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. ↗

— David Riesman

#become #both #created #different #each

Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club. ↗

— Greg Egan

#big #club #great #social

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#arrangement #business #called #derive #friendship

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#beautiful #come #every #felt #field