#society

If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#change #constitution #constitutional #convention #elemental

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#does #exist #institutions #itself #just

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#break #community #did #domestic #end

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable? ↗

— Ana Castillo

#aesthetic #brown #could #everything #i

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them. ↗

— John McCarthy

#forget #forgetting #get #harmful #made

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. ↗

— Robert Cecil

#shows #society #solitude #us

Suicide is an attack on society--an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair. ↗

— Robert E. Neale

#society #suicide #art

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#else #everyone #friendly #good #guys

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#debarred #enter #female #houses #nor

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#i #jobs #provides #security #society