#soc

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#grab #ignore #like #men #possessions

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. ↗

— Mark Twain

#certain #grade #hair #people #social

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. ↗

— Mark Twain

#course #demands #finest #made #more

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#alienation #day #escape #left #only

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#called #correspondence #could #long #long time

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#after #aims #develop #done #hand

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#assure #because #civilized #civilized world #divisions

Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that! ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#called #challenged #community #feudal #fought

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#beat #conscience #education #faster #heart

What is a society without a heroic dimension? ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#heroic #society #without