#society

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#development #inevitable #last #moreover #society

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#ancient #back #dates #devotion #europe

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#destructive #life #regarded #separated #society

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#already #appear #consent #know #many

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#base #civil #civil society #enormous #harm

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world. ↗

— Bill Lee

#baseball #beer #bring #change #grass

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#among #any #group #individual #just

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#collective #each #economic #ensure #financial

Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#any #collapse #difficulty #even #great

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#ages #dark #dark ages #including #our