As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
The great hope of society is in individual character.
None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.
Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look – or at least reproduces our reality.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Caste has divided us. I wish it should be completely abolished from our society.
Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.
If you… scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if one’s sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one’s identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won’t have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else.
The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.
America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom – they are the pillars of society.
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.
A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.
There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free – the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society – like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.
As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand.
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
The press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people.
I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.
Mental health is an issue ailing everyone – it is so omnipresent in society, we must work towards making it better.
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest – seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress.
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail – all commercial and social verticals are going digital – including money itself.
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
I think there’s been this whole image of masculinity that’s been out in society – of brooding, brutish, egotistical, narcissistic men – like, this patriarchy.
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
Voting is how we participate in a civic society – be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It’s the way we teach our children – in school elections – how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice.
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
Governments, the investor and business community, and civil society organizations and public representatives need to work together to ensure the necessary foundations are in place to align private finance to guarantee sustainable and equitable development and poverty reduction.
