#soc

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#defend #doctrine #every #gross #make

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. ↗

— Angela Davis

#liberating #minds #society #talk #well

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. ↗

— Angela Davis

#any #between #functions #how #men

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons. ↗

— Angela Davis

#function #i #prisons #social #social function

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#between #countries #cultural #fewer #freedom

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#history #i #our #purge #society

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#atheists #believed #ever #further #go

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#common #every #fall #ideals #inevitably

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#change #faced #few #forces #intellectually

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#capable #church #diverse #divine #her