Quotes about Society
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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) keywords: art, constantly, epic, form, general, made, mean, needs, poetry, process, profound, responded, society, way , which Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
by Russell Baker (Journalist, American , born in 1925) keywords: done, excuse, just, progress, really, requires, terrible, them, things , usually It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
by Jacques Barzun (Educator, American , born in 1907) keywords: called, correspondence, could, long, mail, morning, seems, since , time Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
by Randolph Bourne (Writer, American , born in 1886) keywords: carving, conspiracy, convenient, into, kind, likes, most, niche, placing, society, statue, then , vast The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
by Omar N. Bradley (Soldier, American , born in 1893) keywords: achieved, brilliance, conscience, ethical, giants, infants, nuclear, our, power, wisdom, without , world You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
by Art Buchwald (Journalist, American , born in 1925) keywords: anymore, anything, doing, itself, make, recording, satire, up , world Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
by Charles Horton Cooley (Sociologist, American , born in 1866) keywords: also, art, cannot, generally, individual, lives, order, our, social, unless , works
