#societies

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#man #masculine #only #shortage #societies

The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#fiber #government #happening #internet #laying

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

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#care #considerable #danger #elephant #even

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments. ↗

— Brad Holland

#experiments #figured #going #haven #how

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#great #great souls #law #never #passion

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#die #dies #faith #human #human beings

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#annals #behind #commonwealth #different #empire

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#essential #foundation #international #international relations #law

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#depends #greater #gulf #happiness #law