#society

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#civil #graceful #nobility #order #ornament

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #eating-disorders #self-esteem #society

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#dream #people #society #two #two weeks

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#authority #because #democracy #failure #hands

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong. ↗

— Max Cannon

#else #everybody #everybody else #live #society

For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet. ↗

— Jermaine Jackson

#interest #islamic #larger #place #planet

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#benefit #community #every #fiction #good

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#establish #got #our #own #sheffield

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. ↗

— John le Carre

#decent #definition #first #first of all #losers

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#destiny #duty #each #first #fulfilling