#society

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. ↗

— Robert Frost

#because #best #cream #homogenized #i

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#also #assets #countries #denying #enjoying

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#any #available #cannot #certainly #force

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#cannot #cultural #economic #fear #i

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#degree #distress #expects #face #highest

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#cause #comfortable #get #give #going

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. ↗

— Bill Gates

#back #fortune #given #go #high

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#feel #future #own #ownership #people

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#colleagues #culture #even #fame #fulfilled

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#benefit #bestow #contending #cultivation #deprived