Society Quotes
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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I think a lot of people, when they don't quite fit in in the world, use humor to combat that and to find their place in society.
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Of course we are looking to win support across every section of society. We win support by speaking to voters on the issues they most care about.
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We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.
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The kingdom of God must be a continuing revolution against the norms of the society that fall below the standards that are set for us in the gospel of Jesus Christ. In the field of public life, it must be a continuing revolution against proposals that contradict the fundamental principles as laid down in the Constitution of the United States, which was written by men whom God raised up for this very purpose. If we remember that, we will be in the forefront of every battle against the things that are tearing down our society.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their place in the society that produced it.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.
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We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.
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I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.
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We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
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If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
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All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
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Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
