#society

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#become #belief #common #community #done

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#afraid #company #feared #getting #girl

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#create #disappear #duration #essence #fortunes

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#i #obsession #ourselves #owe #society

Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#devised #dwell #happens #humane #innocent

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#another #children #commitment #experience #humanity

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#because #death #difficult #fact #happens

There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#difference #dr #gandhi #held #i

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#horrible #i #just #made #me

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#absolutely #boring #most #negative #positive thing