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Letter "S" » Society
«To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women»
«Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.»
Author: Archibald Cox
| About:
Achievement,
Law and lawyers,
Society
| Keywords:
centuries, disputes, enable, force of law, maximum, minimum, persistently, resolution
«The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
| About:
Society,
Writers
| Keywords:
contemporaries, Faust, individualist, individualists, madman, Modern Age, semi, surviving, The Modern Age
«The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.»
Author: Daniel P. Moynihan
(Politician)
| About:
America and Americans,
Society
| Keywords:
distinctly
«We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.»
Author: Friedrich August Hayek
| About:
Freedom,
Individuality,
Liberty,
Morality,
Society
| Keywords:
as a whole, differs, prevails, Society of
«What's wrong with society? What is wrong is people give up searching for the trust and sit back and blend in with the crowd. But that's not who I want to be. Blending in is not my thing.»
«To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Nations,
Society
| Keywords:
application, demoralised, irresponsible, poison, stories, storyteller, storytellers
«The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
happening, identify, nowadays, particularly, tempted, totalitarian, unpleasant
«We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
artificial, excite, high-pitched, high society, human body, nerve, pitch, strain, synthetic, tension, the human body, The Limit, to the limit
«Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Lies,
Society
| Keywords:
crown, crowned head, uneasy, wears
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