#society

We've turned into a whining society. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#society #turned #whining

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#gave #give #how #measure #money

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#look #lot #make #money #people

Let those who like society better have it. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#like #society #those #who

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#anybody #being #bricklayer #else #greater

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#class #culture #how #matter #mature

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#ephemeral #ever #motive #outlasts #particular

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#be true #because #feel #going #i

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#demands #essential #individual #link #mass

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#anyone #i #media #society #strategically