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“We live in a time where convenience is worshipped, and consequence is ignored.”

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“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”

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“All lives – society’s trivial, trifling toys: As citizen improves, oft state destroys (p. 39).”

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Book:Incipiencies: A Primitiae of Poetry

Source: Incipiencies: A Primitiae of Poetry

“Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died.”

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Book:Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

Source: Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

“My point is, that if society hasn't the right to take another person's life, then the law hasn't either. I mean, considering that the law is a mass of regulations that have been handled down and that nobody can interfere with, no human being can touch. But it's human beings the law deals with, after all.”

Law Society Crime Police Human Rights

Book:Strangers on a Train

Source: Strangers on a Train

“To me, politics has always been more than power games, it should be a noble pursuit of ideas, an intellectual effort to bring positive change to society. In my imagination, politics is where scholars and thinkers work for the collective good, guided by moral intention.”

Politics Education Society Morality

Book:Glimpses of My Worldview

Source: Glimpses of My Worldview

“Men think that misogyny is a women's issue; women's to endure and women's to fix. White people think that racism is a pet issue for people of color; not like the pure, economic grievances of the working class. Rape is a rape victim's problem: What was she wearing? Where was she walking? Had she had sex before?”

Politics Society Misogyny Cultural Criticism Structural Oppression

Book:The Witches Are Coming

Source: The Witches Are Coming

“Just as the hero of a play... - be it Oedipus or Hamlet or Arturo Ui - was often an archetype, standing for individual consciousness of every human being, so the double act could be seen as the simplest representation of an entire society... Look at Vladimir and Estragon, ... look at Laurel and Hardy; even look at Morecambe and Wise - and you see a pared-down image of a more-or-less functioning society. Human beings doing their best to get along together; unable to hide their impatience, sometimes, with the recalcitrant behaviour of their fellow earth-dwellers, but each unable to do without the other.”

Society Double Act

Book:The Proof of My Innocence

Source: The Proof of My Innocence

“The main institutions in an established democracy no longer seem to work for the people. The man in the street is thinking: nothing is ever going to change, and if that's the case, you disinvest in the society around you and look elsewhere for purpose. Once you get that level of distrust, it's pretty clear where people will turn to get some kind of solace...the internet.”

Society Institutions Social Media Institutions Or Government

Book:Break the Internet: The Truth About Influencers

Source: Break the Internet: The Truth About Influencers

“Outrage does not build society, it burns it.”

Author:Egbearor Favour

“The distinctive and dominant characteristic of the capitalist market is not opportunity or choice but, on the contrary, compulsion. Material life and social reproduction in capitalism are universally mediated by the market, so that all individuals must in one way or another enter into market relations in order to gain access to the means of life. This unique system of market-dependence means that the dictates of the capitalist market – its imperatives of competition, accumulation, profit-maximization, and increasing labour-productivity – regulate not only all economic transactions but social relations in general.”

Society Capitalism

Author:Ellen Meiksins Wood