#society

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#london #me #range #return #society

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#exists #members #society

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#aid #beyond #care #every #every man

I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society; Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare; and remnants of the pro-business moderates. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#face #get #gop #government #groups

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#bill #bright #co-operation #conditions #enterprise

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators. ↗

— Ben Stein

#charlatans #dictators #engineer #equal #everyone

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#being #just #kind #people #some

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #carried #civil #considerable #founded

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#capital #capitalist #due #great #industrious

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#among #because #collective #creates #democratic