“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Society
Woodrow Wilson on Equality
Fred Allen on Fame
“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.” Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw on Politics
“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” Continue reading
Jerry Seinfeld on Society
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” Continue reading
Nancy Astor on Change
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything – or nothing.” Continue reading
William James on Society
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.” Continue reading
Eric Hoffer on Freedom
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.” Continue reading
Thomas Sowell on History and Society
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” Continue reading
Robertson Davies on Society
“There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.” Continue reading
Douglas Adams on Society
“Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules” Continue reading
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