#society

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#capitalist society #forces #left #make #poor

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#does #influence #mores #reflects #society

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #beings #demand #get #human

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives. ↗

— George Osborne

#civilized #civilized society #generous #hard #least

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#need #society #sugar

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. ↗

— Larry Page

#around #ask #been #doing #driven

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#blind #care #children #claims #demands

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#experts #many #measures #organization #overdue

As society advances the standard of poverty rises. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#poverty #rises #society #standard

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#against #anything #conscience #does #engraved