"I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves."
― Barbara Kingsolver
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Society
― Barbara Kingsolver
More From Barbara Kingsolver
- "Terms like that, “Humane Society,” are devised with people like me in mind, who don’t care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
- "I’ve always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render."
- "Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up."
More In Society
- "In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man’s ultimate responsibility is to God alone."― Geoffrey Fisher
- "It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates."― Julia Roberts
- "It is not a fragrant world."― Raymond Chandler