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Letter "S" » Society
«You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer»
Author: Frank Zappa
(Composer, Guitarist, Satirist, Song Writer)
| About:
Country,
Society
| Keywords:
airline, airlines, beer, football, football team, helps, nuclear, nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons, team, weapons
«Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
class, class feeling, conspiracies, conspiracy, degrade, denied, enforced, enforcing, oppress, oppresses, oppressing, organized, organized society, prevails, property, rob
«While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the»
«You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt»
Author: Harold Macmillan
| About:
America and Americans,
Country,
People,
Society
| Keywords:
bustle, bustles, bustling, Greeks, Romans, The Americans, the Greeks, the Romans, unspoiled, vigorous
«What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
related, related to, strikes
«When they turn the pages of history,when these days have passed long ago--will they read of us with sadnessfor the seeds that we let grow?»
Author: Neil Peart
(Drummer)
| About:
History,
Society
| Keywords:
long ago, pages, Seeds, These Days, The Seeds
«Women are the real architects of society.»
«What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!»
Author: Henrik Ibsen
| About:
Business,
Capitalism,
Education,
Generations,
Science,
Society
| Keywords:
bringing, capitalism, inventions, produced, The Works
«What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| About:
Capitalism,
Society
| Keywords:
arrangement, capitalism, greed, set up, social organization, social structure, social system, social systems, structured
«Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
conflict, human right, Human rights, prevail, property, property right, property rights, rights
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