Browse our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous Society sayings and Society Quotes - Chapter 7
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
There is no higher value in our society than integrity.
The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.
The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.
In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
The driving force of any profession includes not only the special knowledge, skills and standards that it demands, but the duty to serve responsibly, selflessly and wisely, and to establish an inherently ethical relationship between professionals and society.
Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then, I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.
Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.
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.
We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.
When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
The biggest ethical challenge AI is facing is jobs. You have to reskill your workforce not just to create a wealthier society but a fairer one. A lot of call centre jobs will go away, and a radiologist's job will be transformed.
I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.
Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
I challenge us all to have the courage of our convictions to fight for a fair, justice and inclusive society.
There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
When I say, 'I stand for equal rights,' I mean equal rights for all persons... from the moment of conception until natural death. I mean that I believe in the equal human dignity of all persons, no matter the 'contribution' they make to society.
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone's co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society.
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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.
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.
Until we get rid of racial bias, sexism, homophobia in society, it will exist in all walks of society.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
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