The role of culture is that it’s the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we’ve been, where we hope to be.
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
If you say, I’m for equal pay, that’s a reform. But if you say. I’m a feminist, that’s a transformation of society.
Sports are a microcosm of society.
As a society, we can’t hide from the future; we have to build and own it.
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.
The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.
For me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.
You can’t gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable the country to surmount the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century.
I have truly been inspired by the struggle and triumphs of so many women that dare to break new ground in all aspects of society, and those who have pushed the boundaries of human imagination.
You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.
Bitcoin will make a dent in society when more normal transactions occur that would have occurred with dollars or credit card.
