#society

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#business #conservation #enterprise #exist #fails

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#does #influence #mores #reflects #society

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. ↗

— Robert Orben

#cards #credit #credit cards #father #honored

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

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#i #make #more #our #relevant

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

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#need #society #sugar

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. ↗

— Larry Page

#around #ask #been #doing #driven