For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Cuties' is universal, and it raises concerns that involve all world societies. — Maimouna Doucoure Copy Share Image
Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected. — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things. — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
Societies are like single men; they spend too much time pleasuring themselves and zero time making love. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change. — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Talking to each other instead of talking about each other is not some kind of nicey-nice (ph) idea. It's the difference between… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
“the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
“Knowledge leads towards different kind of societies then those societies don’t relate with each other because people in those societies think, act… — Zaman Ali Copy Share Image
Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
The political and social processes by which the Western European societies were put in order are not very apparent, have been forgotten,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them. — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies. — Julia Bacha Copy Share Image
Societies are being interconnected and we have to adjust to that fact. — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together. — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Societies that are disciplined to get what they want become dangerous when they don't get what they want. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Societies are like single men; they spend too much time wanking and zero time making love. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
All democratic societies eventually decide what is in favor of them. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
