Ernest A. Fortin Quotes

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

Ernest A. Fortin

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• I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Society

• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

• After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Years
  • System
  • Welfare

• If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • God
  • Live
  • Society

• I made a living being a background singer for years.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Years
  • Living
  • Singer

• The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Years
  • Redemption
  • Beyond

• Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Stand
  • Within

• I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Years
  • Old
  • Ukulele

• One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • You
  • Years
  • Suicide

• The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Thinking
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• And one of the rules of good civil society I believe is that you’re respectful of the people who disagree with you. And that's part of what makes civil society work. If you can have civil disagreements, and you can listen to each other and not just shout, that's what creates an environment that leads to progress over the long term.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I lived long enough to see the cure for death; to see the rise of the Bitchun Society, to learn ten languages; to compose three symphonies; to realize my boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World; to see the death of the workplace and of work.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• 'The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world'

  

  Maria Montessori
  • World
  • Men
  • Society

• Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • People
  • Great
  • Society

• Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Society
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.

  

  James Carville
  • Business
  • American
  • High

• We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Women
  • Society
  • Support

• When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Long
  • Want
  • You

• I place us where we are a happy couple who are madly in love, and we are kissing the way people kiss on their wedding day. With joy and relief and love. Without guilt. Without Shame.

  

  Amy Sarig King
  • People
  • Happy
  • Joy

• If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

  

  Ernest A. Fortin
  • Society
  • Years
  • Humans