#soc

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#become #children #concerned #i #incorrect

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#best #lunatics #mad #most #people

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#artist #comment #condition #creates #force

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#becomes #blame #evil #identified #illness

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing. ↗

— Georges Sorel

#bloody #cast #country #disorders #hate

I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. ↗

— George Soros

#away #care #country #doing #foundations

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others. ↗

— George Soros

#compatible #degree #freedom #greatest #interests

I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs. ↗

— George Soros

#because #economy #global #global markets #i

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs. ↗

— George Soros

#allow #care #designed #great #i

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic. ↗

— George Soros

#charge #currently #discussion #first #first principle