Societies Quotes

629 Societies quotes by 480 unique authors

Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure,… — Edward Robert Harrison
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. — Whittaker Chambers
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. — Kenneth Lee Pike
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. — David Korten
Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the… — Carl Bernstein
By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking… — David Frum
I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that… — David Frum
I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are… — Louis Begley
Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty,… — Michelle Bachelet
We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your… — Tim Bishop
In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form… — Christiane Amanpour
The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from… — Jared Diamond
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from. — Anne Enright
Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise. — Jay Griffiths
Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great. — David Gemmell
The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain… — Shirin Ebadi
I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the… — Douglass North
Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments. — James Morcan
For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve… — Goh Chok Tong
In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I… — Thomas Jefferson

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