#society

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #beings #demand #get #human

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives. ↗

— George Osborne

#civilized #civilized society #generous #hard #least

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

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#blind #care #children #claims #demands

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#experts #many #measures #organization #overdue

As society advances the standard of poverty rises. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#poverty #rises #society #standard

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. ↗

— Alan Paton

#free man #give #man #reforming #responsibility

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society. ↗

— Alice Paul

#believe #better #concerned #debating #far

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#begun #believe #big #big government #deal