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“Education is beyond the learning of concepts but the discipline should help in sef mastering for one to strive in the society.”

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“Only moral sense of being can help one to be virtuous in imperfect society.”

Society Virtuous Moral Character

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Solidarity is not something I do for you because you might do it for me when the time comes. No, that's called patronage. Solidarity is building collective power on the premise that something which has happened to you should happen to nobody.”

Inspiration Humanity Society Capitalism Labor Nonfiction

Author:Jared Loggins

“Having concepts of gods and spirits does not really make moral rules more compelling but it sometimes makes them more intelligible. So we do not have gods because that makes society function. We have gods in part because we have the mental equipment that makes society possible but we cannot always understand how society functions.”

Society Evolution Morality Evolutionary Psychology Homo Sapiens Ancestry Cognition

Book:Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

Source: Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

“Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, far more complicated. Later surveys and studies would suggest that Millennial men as a whole turned out to be as “traditional,” and even less egalitarian, in their attitudes towards gender as their fathers—which made experts eventually posit that growing up with fathers impacted by gender masculinity crisis made them more, not less, resistant to gender equality.”

Generations Society Gender Equality Millennials Gender Equity

Book:Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

Source: Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

“Societies have religion because social cohesion requires something like religion. Social groups would fall apart if ritual did not periodically reestablish that all members are part of a greater whole.”

Society Evolution Evolutionary Psychology Homo Sapiens Ancestry Cognition

Book:Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

Source: Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

“If you’ve had to make an effort to fit-in , then it concludes that you’ve been trying on the wrong size”

Inspirational Motivational Society Fitting In

Author:Dr. Anhad Kaur Suri

“In normal life one is often not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life. One easily overestimates the importance of one’s own acts and deeds, compared with what we become only through other people.”

Community Society Becoming Transformation Unity Oneness Togetherness

Book:Letters and Papers from Prison

Source: Letters and Papers from Prison

“Social exchange is certainly among the oldest of human behaviors, as humans have depended on sharing and exchanging resources for a very long time.”

Society Evolution Social Change Evolutionary Psychology Homo Sapiens Ancestry Cognition

Book:Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

Source: Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

“WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU FEEL WARM AND CONTENT AND WISH THINGS WOULD STAY THAT WAY? 'I guess you'd call it happiness,' said Harga.”

Happiness Death Fulfillment

Book:Mort

Source: Mort

“I think I have a vague idea what you were driving at," she said. "We all of us somehow caught. We born this way and we don't know why. But we caught anyhow. I born Berenice. You born Frankie. John Henry born John Henry. And maybe we wants to widen and bust free. But no matter what we do we still caught. Me is me and you is you and he is he. We each one of us somehow caught all by ourself. Is that what you was trying to say?”

Society Identity Caught

Book:The Member of the Wedding

Source: The Member of the Wedding