Our Society Quotes - Page 2

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

An Israeli woman is not like women in our societies, because she is a soldier.

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That’s why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.