#soc

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society. ↗

— Lester Bowie

#importance #just #learn #music #our

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#both #deeply #differences #essential #huge

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#cannot #common #factions #into #long

I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#always #city #even #feel #i

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people. ↗

— Bryce Dallas Howard

#always #be true #come #comfort #films

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces. ↗

— Earl Browder

#back #because #become #behind #capitalist

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#basic #dual #full #given #health

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#coins #conclusion #courageous #fertile #guess

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded. ↗

— Susan George

#around #been #being #children #collapsing

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#ever #greater #hiroshima #intellectual #journalist