Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.
Mike Lowry quote on Fairness Project
Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.
John Keats | The use of the world
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats | Society, Adversity
Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.
Tom Wolfe | Everybody has his own scenario
The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.
George Simmel | Social structures
The most sacred duty of each member is to preserve the profoundest silence with reference to such things as concern the well-being of the order.
George Simmel | Mankind, Society
Even if one is interested only in one’s own society, which is one’s prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
Peter L. Berger | Society
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore’s, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
Peter L. Berger | Society, Singapore
I have sometimes asked myself how a gynecologist could manage to have sexual intercourse; by the same token, one could ask how a New Testament scholar could be a Christian.
Peter L. Berger | Society, Religion
But we don’t have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy – which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
Socialism, Democracy, Society
In this dirty minded world, you are either someone’s wife or someone’s whore. And if you’re not either people think there is something wrong with you….but there is nothing wrong with me.
John Irving | dirty minded world
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
Mikhail Gorbachev | Mankind, Society
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Technology, Society
The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Invalid, Society
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
