#society

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#abolish #absolute #been #condition #death

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#economics #money #morality #society #death

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ↗

— Henry Adams

#american society #anything #flat #into #pond

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. ↗

— Scott Adams

#differently #exactly #handicapped #mentally #reason

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#father #i #imagine #like #only

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #philosophy #religion #society #sociology

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on. ↗

— Carol Alt

#men #must #need #protect #says

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#every #family #information #knowledge #knowledge is power

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#beneficial #central #development #involves #men

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#know #means #much #research #society