"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."

Atwood, Margaret | Choice | 1 bookmarks

"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women."

Greer, Germaine | Men | 4 bookmarks

"Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time."

Nixon, Richard M. | Freedom | 1 bookmarks

"Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden."

Baldwin, James | Society | 1 bookmarks

"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

Lombardi, Vince | Teams and Teamwork | 2 bookmarks

"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."

Orwell, George | Defeat | 2 bookmarks

"A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

Orwell, George | Jokes and Jokers | 1 bookmarks

"To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up."

Orwell, George | Language | 4 bookmarks

"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."

Orwell, George | Nationalities and Nationalism | 3 bookmarks

"To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."

Orwell, George | Survival | 4 bookmarks