#society

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#essential #first #internal #members #reciprocal

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. ↗

— John Strachan

#before #complied #delivered #discourse #drowned

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#back #become #came #going #horizon

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#american society #as far as #became #concerned #encountered

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#condition #consideration #emigrate #fixed #found

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#atheists #bankrupt #believe #could #ever

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us. ↗

— Hilary Swank

#because #best #birthright #boundaries #experience

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#cake #cameras #dinners #exists #frozen

Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#any #behavior #except #express #extra

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#average person #before #fearful #group #more