Quotes about Society
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
by George Bernard Shaw (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1856) keywords: matter, poor, poverty, questions, rich, social, time, waste , your How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
by Paul Sweeneykeywords: cake, cameras, dinners, exists, frozen, how, instant, mashed, mixes, packaged, patience, potatoes, society, teach , young Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
by Thomas Szasz (Psychologist, American , born in 1920) keywords: formerly, magic, medicine, men, mistake, now, religion, science, strong , weak Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
by Thomas Szasz (Psychologist, American , born in 1920) keywords: among, because, collective, creates, democratic, distinctions, guilt, individual, meaningful, meaningless, men, mind, moral, now, odious, prefer, punishment, responsibility, unfashionable , which One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
by Alvin Toffler (Author, American , born in 1928) keywords: ability, definition, definitions, need, new, real, sanity, soon, tell , unreal The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
by Arnold J. Toynbee (Historian, British , born in 1889) keywords: against, become, better, considerably, human, ourselves, prospects, race, survival, than, tigers, today , were Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
by Bill Vaughan (Journalist, American , born in 1915) keywords: after, animal, back, day, each, efficient, five, get, given, having, himself, intends, into, man, miles, out, problem, shoot, space, up, way , work Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
by Bill Vaughan (Journalist, American , born in 1915) keywords: after, developer, names, out, streets, suburbia, them, then, trees , where The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
by Daniel Webster (Statesman, American , born in 1782) keywords: appearance, fully, governed, know, more, necessary, realities, seem, something, than , world