#society

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#disappeared #in the past #learning #literature #much

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#collective #each #economic #ensure #financial

Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#any #collapse #difficulty #even #great

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#ages #dark #dark ages #including #our

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#corruption #democratic #democratic society #far #oppression

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

#call #certain #defined #democratic #democratic society

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

#absolutely #change #completely #different #i

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

— Vince Lombardi

#commitment #company #effort #group #group effort

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

#earth #encounter #full #great #greenpeace