#society

Quand on parle des vices d’un homme, si on vous dit : “Tout le monde le dit” ne le croyez pas ; si l’on parle de ses vertus en vous disant encore : “Tout le monde le dit”, croyez-le. ↗

— François-René de Chateaubriand

#people #relationships #society #wisdom #life

We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world. ↗

— Guy Laliberte

#agents #believe #better #better world #care

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed. ↗

— Brian Lamb

#being #dumb #either #else #more

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#civilization #less #top #unbearable

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#been #centrality #i #information #libraries

I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#anything #art #better #carries #carry

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#flat #official #pamphlet #society #version

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#apply #contemporary #contemporary society #developed #discuss

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#along #always #arrested #because #go

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#class #poverty #society #architecture