Societies Quotes

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Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of… — David Eagleman
Primitive societies without religion have never been found. — William Dean Howells
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in… — Will Durant
Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. — Jurgen Habermas
Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its… — Karl Marx
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon.… — Jane Jacobs
When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared.… — Tariq Ramadan
History will judge societies and governments â€” and their institutions â€” not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and… — Cesar Chavez
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. — Don DeLillo
The Humane Society of the United States works with local Humane Societies across the country. We don't control every local Humane Society in this nation.… — Wayne Pacelle
In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and… — Anne-Marie Slaughter
Men have influenced my activism and feminism both positively and negatively. As most gender differences are social, not genetic, we still need to change what… — Eva Cox
In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature of scientific activity,… — Richard Lindzen
There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments. — Fareed Zakaria
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies… — Jimmy Carter
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. — John F. Kennedy
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if… — Koichiro Matsuura
What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it… — Michel Foucault
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although the… — Gwynne Dyer
Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social… — Estelle Freedman

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