#society

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#finds #form #howling #medicine #our

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#children #so-called #society

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#been #confuses #create #desire #enemy

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. ↗

— Alice Walker

#adds #allow #any #case #experience

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals. ↗

— Richard Wall

#been #conceive #discipline #individuals #psychology

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#educated #individual #laws #marriage #matters

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. ↗

— Simone Weil

#aiming #already #as far as #between #brought

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #arbitrary #china #clearly #crush

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#celebrity #create #edinburgh #happening #highbrow

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#culture #future #memory #society #without