#societies

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#age #aim #apparent #between #childhood

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. ↗

— Henry George

#clothes #institutions #outgrow #progressive #societies

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#against #city #confuse #decadent #destroying

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #crushes #deplore #kills #loss

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#economic #globalization #increasing #interdependence #islands

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#always #back #believe #every #give

You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#agreeing #agreement #collective #difficult #find

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cultural #dna #happen #made #societies

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#device #educated #male #many #simple

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding