#society

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#children #civilization #economic #human #human civilization

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#become #clear #freedom #ignored #longer

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#communism #delusion #dictatorship #few #form

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#among #group #individual #members #mix

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. ↗

— John Wooden

#contributes #future #i #i think #more

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#among #away #beheld #chased #contact

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#black and white #colors #gray #in-between #issues

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#available #delight #everything #feel #gain

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back. ↗

— Martin Yan

#anything #back #better #contribute #drain

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#because #care #created #denied #does