There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security,… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our society, real power does not happen to lie in the political system, it lies in the private economy: that’s where… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It not only is a complete undermining of the principles of family and marriage and the hope of future generations, but it… — Trent Franks Copy Share Image
More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom,… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Our society’s failure to recognize and care for the social and emotional well-being of our boys contributes to a nation of young… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Today our (Society of Jesus) prime educational objective must be to form men (and women) for others; men (and women) who will… — Pedro Arrupe Copy Share Image
As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
Let me put it bluntly: anyone who says that money isn't important doesn't have any! Rich people understand the importance of money… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm sure that there must have been times when you have read books or watched films and found yourself secretly wishing for… — Mark Walden Copy Share Image
It is important for people to recognize that those who are working for the dissolution of our society have a spiritual agenda.… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society,… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
