#society

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#fools #makes #nature #only #owe

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#does #dream #examine #itself #popular

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#behalf #crime #demand #direct #forgiveness

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#came #doing #gift #good #good person

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#countless #cumulative #develop #efforts #even

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ↗

— James Baldwin

#begins #being #conscious #educated #education

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#existence #literal #literal sense #most #only

The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#direction #government #important #important thing #majority

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#many #not perfect #our #perfect #society

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty. ↗

— David Amram

#became #culture #egalitarian #entire #entire lives