#society

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad. ↗

— Pringle Kennedy

#amazing #atheist #christian #culture #direction

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#business #dictating #i #maintained #morality

Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match. Like pulling on a Missoni sweater over Trussardi slacks and Pollini shoes, you can now enjoy hybrid styles of morality. It's the way of the world -- philosophy starting to look more and more like business administration. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#morality #philosophy #society #business

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#achieving #end #free #free society #itself

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#compete #copying #either #handicapped #handicaps

Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american society #another #attack #attention #ballistic

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#dying #europe #gave #idea #marriage

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#any #balls #character #effort #had

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#freedom #individuality #liberty #society #uniformity

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society. ↗

— Virginia Gildersleeve

#bite #chance #college #democratic #democratic society