#society

Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren’t even really about your body, they’re about society and our society’s wrongheaded and impossibly narrow definition of a “good” body. Your body didn’t do anything wrong. What’s fucked up about your body is not your body at all, but that your body has to live in a society that thinks it has a right to say fucked up things about your body. ↗

— Golda Poretsky

#body-image #inspirational #societal-norms #society #inspirational

Service to others is the price that you pay for your place here on Earth. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#inspirational #society #inspirational

Before we work on artificial intelligence, why don't we do something about natural stupidity? ↗

— Steve Polyak

#intelligence #intelligence

If non-linear leaps in intelligence and ability are possible, why haven't these effects been observed in our schools? I believe the answer lies in the profound inertia of human thought: when an entire society believes something is impossible, it suppresses, by its very way of life, the evidence that would contradict that belief. ↗

— John Mighton

#inertia #science #society #intelligence

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails. ↗

— Aberjhani

#civilization #forgiveness #friendship #grace #hope

The D.H.C. for Central London always made a point of personally conducting his new students round the various departments. "Just to give you a general idea," hew would explain to them. For of course some soft of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently - though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#happiness #huxley #society #intelligence

It's not me but the world that's deranged. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #society #world #life

Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing..." She closed her fingers into a fist. "...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition! ↗

— Frank Herbert

#society #art

The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#greater #greater importance #importance #make #our

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#blessings #good #great #increase #learning