#society

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#deal #great #great deal #handle #loads

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#feel #hollywood #like #little #neat

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#call #case #cast #civilization #could

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#company #country #cured #find #himself

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy. ↗

— Earl Browder

#economy #expansion #explains #forces #history

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#classes #give #happens #only #privileged

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#always #anywhere #because #been #being

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. ↗

— Herb Caen

#all night #anything #cockroaches #eat #night

The great hope of society is in individual character. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#great #great hope #hope #individual #society

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security. ↗

— David Cameron

#afghanistan #clear #create #democracy #frankly