#society

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#back #bring #everything #experience #i

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#does #morality #society #test

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#civil #civil society #democratization #elements #imperatives

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. ↗

— Robert Bork

#apparent #became #cannot #child #enlightenment

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society. ↗

— David Korten

#fabric #proud #rights #say #social

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#believed #combination #ever #i #interested

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#basic #basic research #cancer #continues #family

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society. ↗

— Jo Brand

#female #male #more #social #society

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny. ↗

— Will Eisner

#been #day #different #funny #historically

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#another #being #better #continent #england