It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both. — John Hall Wheelock Copy Share Image
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Societies who do not care for their young people and old people are decadent, decaying societies. — Suzan Shown Harjo Copy Share Image
Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them. — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
Over the ages, some societies have accorded far less value and respect to singles than to married individuals. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take place and create an outpouring of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
Friendly societies, educational associations and trade unions gave working people the power to shape their own lives. — Liz Kendall 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
A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw has 754,678,854,456 platinum championships in golf in real life and that was on channel 6. He can master any golf… — Brandon Mccaw Copy Share Image
Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies… — Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned Copy Share Image
I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for… — Svante Paabo Copy Share Image
If you read Herodotus, the first Greek historian 2,500 years ago, he was talking about that - about people mixing with other… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
“If things continue this way, there will be two societies - or at least I hope there will be two - the… — Dave Eggers 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
“No two societies create the same institutions; they will have distinct customs, different systems of property rights, and different ways of dividing… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“For a nation to be truly transformed, there must be movements, civil societies, NGOs that are spread all across the land to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top. — Henry George Copy Share Image
All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
