How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
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We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
by Alvar Aalto (Architect, Finnish , born in 1898) topics: Problems , Society keywords: almost, city, committee, committees, dealing, every, hundred, just, nothing, other, probably, problem, problems, three , two We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
by Alvar Aalto (Architect, Finnish , born in 1898) topics: Problems , Society keywords: city, concentrate, daily, functions, housing, involved, only, other, our, problem, separated, should , work Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
by Edward Abbey (Author, American , born in 1927) topics: Society keywords: civilization, cocktail, cop, culture, down, guns, hand, him, his, soviet, tank , youth Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
by Edward Abbey (Author, American , born in 1927) topics: Society keywords: coffee, culture, first, gasoline, often, our, runs, second , tasting Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
by Edward Abbey (Author, American , born in 1927) topics: Society keywords: every, floats, layer, once, scum, society, stew, stir, then, top, up , while Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
by Grace Abbott (Activist, American , born in 1878) topics: Society keywords: both, bound, child, children, continue, disease, end, inevitably, labor, poverty, social, time, together, treatment, use , will The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
by Grace Abbott (Activist, American , born in 1878) topics: Society , Education keywords: age, argument, attend, children, continuing, could, curtailment, democracy, education, first, hours, minimum, necessary, raising, school , working By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
by Lascelles Abercrombie (Poet, British , born in 1881) topics: Poetry , Society keywords: art, constantly, epic, form, general, made, mean, needs, poetry, process, profound, responded, society, way , which
