#society

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#amount #beings #computers #created #devices

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society. ↗

— Gary Locke

#diversity #ethnic #richness #society

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. ↗

— John Locke

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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. ↗

— John Locke

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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#complex #defenses #football #modern #modern society

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

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