#society

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world. ↗

— Paul Haggis

#affected #certainly #fear #how #i

We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different. ↗

— David Icke

#equality #humanity #society #equality

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large. ↗

— William Hamilton

#country #easily #evolve #institutions #large

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#basic #commissions #democratic #democratic society #evolving

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful person #best #best man #cleverest #competition

Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where. ↗

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#know #problem #resolves #science #society

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#among #considered #desert #destitute #find

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#different #different faiths #disparate #dreams #faiths

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

#capitalist #capitalist society #commodities #conditions #differ

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#depends #developed #economy #emancipate #how