#society

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. ↗

— Scott Fitzgerald

#fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #age

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#economics #money #morality #society #death

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ↗

— Henry Adams

#american society #anything #flat #into #pond

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. ↗

— Scott Adams

#differently #exactly #handicapped #mentally #reason

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#father #i #imagine #like #only

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #philosophy #religion #society #sociology

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#every #family #information #knowledge #knowledge is power

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#beneficial #central #development #involves #men

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #bond #develop #eager #expanding

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#economy #finance #more #more and more #now