I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time… — John Pomfret Copy Share Image
We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies. — David Lee Copy Share Image
Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history... It is beyond question that the… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero -… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Life was never meant to be difficult, we just make it that way so that it fits into societies and our indoctrinated… — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an… — Samina Baig Copy Share Image
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
“I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and… — Petek Kabakci Copy Share Image
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for… — David Vitter Copy Share Image
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups,… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their reach… — Novak Djokovic Copy Share Image
I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success?… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy.… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
