#society

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. ↗

— James Buchan

#altogether #between #both #cities #distinction

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#dream #people #society #two #two weeks

Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society. ↗

— John Cameron

#interesting #nuclear #nuclear physics #physics #society

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist. ↗

— John Cameron

#been #i #i am #medical #more

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#best #canadians #despite #difficult #either

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#completely #condition #distribution #industrial #industrial organization

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#establish #got #our #own #sheffield

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. ↗

— John le Carre

#decent #definition #first #first of all #losers

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#destiny #duty #each #first #fulfilling

It is not a fragrant world. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#fragrant #world