#society

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. ↗

— Bill Gates

#back #fortune #given #go #high

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#feel #future #own #ownership #people

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#already #appear #consent #know #many

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

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

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same. ↗

— Aberjhani

#color #diversity #ethnic-cultures #ethnic-groups #ethnicity

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept. ↗

— Jesse Eisenberg

#after #created #decide #society #technology