I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?
Terry Tempest WilliamsThe truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.
Leah Hager CohenTags: society culture value labor price objects
Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.
Stephen KingTags: society
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
Henry David ThoreauTags: society class poverty architecture
Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.
Helen FieldingTags: society freaks bonding gay-people single-women thirties
To her amazement, she realized that the way of life of these people was nothing more than an indeterminate fiction, casually knotted together at particular points that were used again and again. With four or five remarks, and a couple of facial expressions, she had mastered it with no problem at all.
Gerhard AmanshauserThe only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
AristotleTags: equality society political-philosophy law rights governement equal-rights
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
Mark SkousenTags: society peace war civilization
It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Charles A. BeardTags: society usa citizen founders
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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