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Letter "S" » Society
«In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.»
«It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.»
Author: Hazel Henderson
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
burned down, burn down, developing, developing countries, GNP, in place, pump, pumping, pumps, slave labor
«In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary»
Author: Kathleen Norris
| About:
Liberty,
Society
| Keywords:
conflict, conformity, individual liberty, permanent, unresolvable
«In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts.»
Author: Matthew Lotti
| About:
Life,
Money,
Society
| Keywords:
accounts, asshole, assholes, Swiss bank, the Swiss, winners
«I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.»
«In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
| About:
Presidency,
Society
| Keywords:
cheerleaders, insist, Presidents
«Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Intelligence,
Religion,
Society
| Keywords:
interrelationship
«In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible»
«It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only»
«In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet»
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