#society

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#consumption #deeply #endless #filled #glut

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#conduct #government #government programs #harder #help

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it. ↗

— William Blackstone

#capable #courage #formed #living #living alone

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled. ↗

— Elizabeth Blackwell

#development #free #must #society #then

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#anything #ask #creating #each #equity

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#american society #bad #bad guys #cinema #explains

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#best #died #ever #i #i think

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#american society #composed #each #favours #fundamentally

After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#could #cut #harm #little #might

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues. ↗

— Ajay Devgan

#corruption #faithfully #given #issue #issues