#society

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#activity #because #exalted #excellence #good

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. ↗

— Helen Garner

#development #going #interest #like #me

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster. ↗

— Susan George

#disaster #economy #lead #only #society

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#colleagues #culture #even #fame #fulfilled

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#benefit #bestow #contending #cultivation #deprived

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. ↗

— John Cheever

#fan #fans #life #literary #literary men

Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#am #balance #between #challenge #created

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#also #art #cannot #generally #individual

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#because #crime #had #i #judge

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#going #kids #part #society #try