#society

If religion is a crutch, then society is the broken foot. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#society #religion

Solitude sometimes is best society. ↗

— John Milton

#privacy #solitude #society

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. ↗

— Frank Black

#as far as #back #boston #far #folk

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#family #insurance #longer #look #out

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#age #because #being #difficult #dramas

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. ↗

— David Bohm

#ancient times #back #between #body #evolved

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#class #important #middle #middle class #overestimated

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#does #morality #society #test

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. ↗

— Robert Bork

#apparent #became #cannot #child #enlightenment

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society. ↗