It's too hard for us also to see so many children and to see some dying and some handicapped and knowing this is a ... disease that can be controlled by removing all pigs from society.
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We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.
I believe that what has happened in West Tisbury is going to have echoes for years to come around the ways we raise property taxes in Massachusetts. I think Bill Graham has shown us that there are huge flaws - frightening flaws - in the way towns conduct this type of business. There can be nothing arbitrary - and there should be nothing subjective - about the process of taxation. That's been a cornerstone of our government and our society.
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
Even as America wrestles with hate crime legislation, its advocates recognize the origins of free-speech arguments. Laws grow out of historical context. What is appropriate in Germany may not be appropriate in the U.S., ... I don't think one society should be able to impose its values on another.
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Names are an important key to what a society values. Anthropologists recognize naming as 'one of the chief methods for imposing order on perception.' What is not named in a culture very likely goes unnoticed by the majority of its people. The converse is also true people pay greater attention to things that been given names.
FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war --founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting --such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization.
Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
Do not go overboard and get trapped into a situation that can be used by elements bent on painting an image of Indonesia's Islam as an intolerant, rigid and anarchic society.
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life not merely in nature, but in man.
I am sorry I have not learned to play at cards. It is very useful in life it generates kindness and consolidates society.
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
Two great issues of our time are addressed by Jim Wallis, and his thought-provoking answers make powerful reading for anyone interested in social change. Jim Wallis challenges us to create a society that both addresses injustice and stresses personal responsibility, and his call for a global covenant through which rich countries meet their obligations to the poor will have a resonance throughout the world.
The prospect of 3G (third-generation mobile phone networks) is very good but anything, even the best, should have a price in the commercial society. We have made the best choice and plan for (our) shareholders. I don't believe the license price can go up endlessly.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Americans are deeply divided over homosexuality in our society. But if school officials and community members use the ground rules of the First Amendment, they can reach agreement on how public schools can guard the rights of all students in a safe learning environment.
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word - voluntary
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted end.... It is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America.
One of the things I talk about is the importance of having strong families in our state. It's the base of society. Strong families build the leaders of tomorrow. Strong families keep down the cost of government.
I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.
The advance, which the human mind had made towards civilization, prevented Virgil from making a like impression on his own age.
If you look at the big picture, I think the whole THG, designer drug scandal is a good thing for the sport, ... Every time someone gets caught I see that as a positive, because it is an effort to clean up the sport. We really have to look at drug use in sports, whether track and field or any other sport, just like you would look at crime in society. To think it is going to stop completely would be foolish and unrealistic. It is never going to happen. Just like with criminals in society, you are always going to have people who are raised with poor morals or who don't feel confident in their ability to go out and be successful without cheating someone else.
Complete moral tolerance is possible only when men have become completely indifferent to each other that is to say, when society is at an end.
He has double face. On one hand, he said he wants a bridge-to-peace situation with the Israel authority. On the other hand, he pushed the Palestinian people to kill innocent people amongst the Israeli society.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business 8230 has been a menace to 8230 American society.
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
It is worth it even if only the financial balance sheet for society is considered a few years of investment versus a subsequent lifetime of productive activity. Perhaps a cycle prevented with children's lives changed. Health problems averted. Addiction and crime avoided as ways to cope with hopelessness.
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
The progress of the industrial age rests on the greater diversification of labor and the use of more elaborate tools and machinery which have increased productivityin other words, saved labor.... In our attempt to cure the social ills, we should not kill the goose that has laid the golden eggs. If our society is sick, it is for other reasons than the conquest by man of the forces of nature.
Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.
From the point of view of human history, the way in which the Thirteen States became independent is of far less importance than the fact that they did become independent. And with the establishment of their independence came a new sort of community into the world. It was like something coming out of an egg. It was a western European civilization that had broken free from the last traces of Empire and Christendom it had not a vestige of monarchy left and no state religion.... It was in these respects such a clean start in political organization as the world had not seen before.... The new community had in fact gone right down to the bare and stripped fundamentals of human association, and it was building up a new sort of society and a new sort of state upon those foundations.
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.