#social

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies. ↗

— David Frum

#anywhere #beneficiaries #big #constituencies #farmers

Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#club #crush #face #family #mickey

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#economic #freedom #general #general public #go

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#balance #central #condition #control #creating

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#distinctions #marry #may #social #themselves

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#end #experience #human #human experience #in the end

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#decisive #development #economic #factors #fields

The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#door #emphasis #everyone #feeling #feels

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#behind #capable #citizens #favor #federalism

As you know, I have always been curious about our immortality... how it feels to live on and on through time....I need speculate no longer, I have sampled eternity in Miss Campbell's fifth period "social studies" class. Three days on the concept of "manifest destiny," Vasile. THREE DAYS. I yearned to stand up, rip her lecture notes from her pallid hands, and scream, 'Yes, America expanded westward! Is that not logical, given that Europeans settled on the Eastern shore? What else were they to do? Advance vainly into the sea? ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#anger #eternity #manifest-destiny #social-studies #anger