#society

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#before #bread #bringing #business #capitalism

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#pillars #society #spirit #these #truth

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#about #ancestry #common #delusion #hatred

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#economics #money #morality #society #death

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. ↗

— Scott Adams

#differently #exactly #handicapped #mentally #reason

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#economy #finance #more #more and more #now

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#american #american society #being #cut #destroy

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. ↗

— Tony Benn

#change #define #finer #here #just