A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it’s worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
A job is a person’s identity in a society, his way of living, and his relevance in society.
Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it’s integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.
We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that’s because we don’t talk about them enough.
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
The truth is, I’m someone coming from a spoiled society – the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter.
If we provide quality education to one generation, poverty will automatically be eradicated from society.
Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.
The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.
I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.
There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren’t getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.
If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.
But, actually, so many of the clerics that I’ve met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.
A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming – a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
For society to progress, we should not only move forward but also clean up after ourselves.
We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ‘social-worker’-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
As much as any woman of the twentieth century, Madam Walker paved the way for the profound social changes that altered women’s place in American society.
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
I’m a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don’t do because I feel that it’s going to create a bad vibe. I don’t do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.
The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don’t. It’s a society where relationships are built on love.
If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society – take control of our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools, including our teachers. The only thing keeping black people from doing it is this idiotic idea about integration, about being racially balanced.
The ‘Bohemian Manifesto’ represents those that actually have to step out of society because they cannot join, but then they become the saviors of society because they create the actual possibilities of change.
Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.
Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists’ movements assumed that there’d be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on.
I think right now the way society’s going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn’t have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I’ve been lost many times in my life, and I’ve had to have someone guide me back on the right path.
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Public and employer opinion often defeat society’s best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
