“Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.”– Clint Eastwood Related Quotes “As society advances the standard of poverty rises.”– Theodore Parker “In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.”– Ray Dalio “The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.”– Leon Trotsky