#societies

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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

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.


Tony Snow


#because #bush #dictatorships #free #free societies

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.


Tony Snow


#believe #blessings #called #depend #destiny

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.


Susan Sontag


#becomes #blame #evil #identified #illness

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

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.


C. JoyBell C.


#differences #droids #fitting-in #generic #generic-people

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.


Charles Eisenstein


#new-normal #normality #paradigm-shift #paradigms #sacred-economics

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

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