Haim Harari Quotes
A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.
Quotes to Explore
-
Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
-
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
-
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
-
It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
-
Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
-
Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
-
Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.
-
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
-
I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
-
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
-
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
-
By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
-
It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
-
What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
-
The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
-
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
-
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
-
Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
-
The Americans should stop insulting us, I'm not going to be an accomplice to the depopulation of the land. It's not up to the Americans to tell us how to organise our farm policy and the balance of our society. Their attitude is to treat the EC as if it had the plague and then encourage the rest of the world to join in.
-
Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.
-
I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.
-
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.
-
We have to overcome the practice of male domination - even though it's changing, and changing in Liberia quite drastically.
-
A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.
