#society

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

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. ↗

— Robert Bork

#either #finding #happy #laws #likely

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. ↗

— Brit Hume

#easily #exquisitely #feelings #greatest #greatest things

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#also #been #our #society #unfortunately

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#enemy #freedom #majority #our #society

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#best #completely #else #rational #rest

'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important. ↗

— Janis Ian

#child #doing #first #hard #i

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#do you know #know #less #more #neither

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#before #bread #bringing #business #capitalism

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#pillars #society #spirit #these #truth