#society

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#men #themselves #union

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#civilization #continuous #evolved #knowledge #new

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#cannot #change #enough #fabric #quickly

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction. ↗

— Major Owens

#direction #highly #moving #our #people

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#know #society #western #western society #writers

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#choice #expresses #fact #forces #homosexuality

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#differentiated #directly #family #functions #highly

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#conception #contemporary #contemporary society #few #getting

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. ↗

— Ron Paul

#esteem #free #free society #held #highest

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