We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.
We live in a disposable, ‘cast-off and throw-away’ society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.
I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I’d like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.
I did make National Honors Society in high school.
No-one will protect us unless we learn to protect us ourselves… Our army should become one of the elites of Ukrainian society… The word ‘general’ should not be associated with the word ‘corruption’ but the word ‘hero.’
We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.
‘Dear Society’ really is my letter to society where I express the anguish I’ve been caused from such an image-based industry and culture we live in.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
Our work should be a reflection of society, and if you’re not concerned with including all of society, then I don’t really know what you’re doing making art in the first place.
No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.
Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.
If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people – be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.
Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I’m a tourist. I’m a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.
The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces… that’s a life well-spent.
The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.
If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society – the people who start to get new ideas out.
Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.
Once electricity and petrol and facilities and food stop, society stops. It’s crazy.
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.
Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
