#society

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

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. ↗

— Alan Paton

#free man #give #man #reforming #responsibility

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society. ↗

— Alice Paul

#believe #better #concerned #debating #far

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in. ↗

— Sean Penn

#anything #life #offer #original #our

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. ↗

— Karl Marx

#does #expresses #individuals #relations #society

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. ↗

— Karl Marx

#epoch #every #force #i #ideas

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. ↗

— Karl Marx

#being #gregarious #human #human being #itself

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. ↗

— George Mason

#civil #community #compact #every #general

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society. ↗

— Theresa May

#basis #british #come #family #genuine

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#enormous #huge #ideas #ignorance #modern