As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
I don't know what America has really learned. We are too quick to do what's expedient on behalf of our culture of… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as… — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
For all the good things it has brought our society, the Web has also fostered ideological hermits, who only talk to folks… — James Brady Copy Share Image
I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
There is no other complex field in our society in which do-it-yourself beats out factory production or market production. Nobody makes his… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society:… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When… — Jamie Glazov Copy Share Image
The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of society's… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I hope what I do when I draw from other people's lives is pay tribute. To try to understand what it means… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Where are the leaders who can speak to the idea that it is not alien to American interests, but very much in… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today.… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or… — Estelle Ramey Copy Share Image
The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving… — Sting Copy Share Image
Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The path to a better future goes directly through our public schools. I have nothing against private schools, parochial schools and home… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history… — Felix S. Cohen Copy Share Image
If gay marriage is a real thing, gay infertility must be a real thing. It's not fair. I mean, it wasn't fair… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image