#society

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society. ↗

— Pervez Musharraf

#dead #doubt #families #greater #i

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age. ↗

— B.F. Skinner

#interests #society #age

We don’t know who is healthy and who is not just by looking at their body shape. ↗

— Cheryl-Ann Webster

#body-image #diet-industry #diets #eating-disorders #self-esteem

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#centuries #laws #legal #living #people

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children. ↗

— Ednita Nazario

#anything #children #come #common #conditional love

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#church #described #emerge #ever #expressed

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld. ↗

— Michael Newdow

#believe #constitution #government #i #i believe

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people. ↗

— Olof Palme

#group #people #reserved #rights #select

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings. ↗

— Robert Patterson

#food #organic #organic food #pass #preference

And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#block #divided #dock #left #men