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Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.


Bill Bennett


#lot #message #punishment #rest #send

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.


Peter L. Berger


#comparing #even #interested #much #only

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.


Peter L. Berger


#be true #been #capitalism #democratic #economy

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.


Peter L. Berger


#become #branches #case #certain #cultures

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.


Henri Bergson


#association #division #does #elements #life

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.


John Desmond Bernal


#affairs #analyzing #development #economic #economic development

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.


Ben Bernanke


#dead #economist #john #long #long run

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.


Georges Bernanos


#corruption #end #first #justifies #means

No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they’d like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. A fissure forms in the vessel. I’m cracking open.


Libba Bray


#gemma-doyle #girl #mirage #society #beauty

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.


Aneurin Bevan


#amount #attempts #burning #concerned #deep






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