#society

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#democracy #fight #freedom #grow #happens

Society is at odds with itself. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#odds #society

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#care #environment #gifts #guess #health

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#back #beautiful #because #confront #death

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Mark Hopkins

#christ #compared #ever #jesus #jesus christ

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked. ↗

— John Clellon Holmes

#bunch #came #conclusion #different #generation

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. ↗

— John Andrew Holmes

#adult #allowed #boy #cringe #develop

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live. ↗

— Ruth Hubbard

#comprehend #disciplines #easier #economics #live

The public school has become the established church of secular society. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#church #established #public #public school #school

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. ↗

— Henry St. John

#body #collective #enjoyed #every #happiness