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
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
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
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
“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
Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.'… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves… — Jane Smiley 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
It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion be? It should produce peaceful, strong, secure… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us… — David Christian Copy Share Image
America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced… — Laurie Helgoe 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the… — John Gerzema Copy Share Image
And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
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
Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does. — Mark Pagel 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
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
As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival… — Ahmet Davutoglu Copy Share Image
What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this… — Jenna McCarthy Copy Share Image
If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
