#society

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#basic #modernity #overcomes #religion #secular

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#appreciation #attorney #both #deep #defense

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. ↗

— Tony Benn

#change #define #finer #here #just

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. ↗

— Paul Berg

#biology #human #human values #ideas #impact

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#controlled #creates #democracy #even #forces

We live in a kissy society. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#society

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#being #bored #fear #often #person

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. ↗

— Joe Biden

#common #community #individualism #long #over

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#certainly #could #economic #enables #factors

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior. ↗

— Jerry Springer

#free #free society #human #human behavior #just