Our Society Quotes - Page 9

It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.

Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.

The number one problem in our society today is short-term thinking.

You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.

The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution.

If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!

Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack sufficient use of reason,' are 'incapable of contracting marriage,' according to canon law.

Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

Racism is the most divisive force in our society, so until it is dealt with we cannot hope for much.