In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
A society that has made ‘nostalgia’ a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.
The little things, I can obey. But the big things – how we think, what we value – those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone – or any society – determine those for you.
Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn’t another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.
You get racism crossing the street; it’s in the very fabric of American society.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel or the one that worries about making sure that the next generation has the capacity to eat everybody’s lunch.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don’t have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that’s how they do it.
We must work to establish a ‘fiduciary society,’ where manager/agents entrusted with managing other people’s money are required – by federal statute – to place front and center the interests of the owners they are duty-bound to serve.
The biggest ethical challenge AI is facing is jobs. You have to reskill your workforce not just to create a wealthier society but a fairer one. A lot of call centre jobs will go away, and a radiologist’s job will be transformed.
I felt free once I realized I was never going to fit the narrow mold society wanted me to fit in.
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
If you… scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.
Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.
We are a society that really worked to leave our differences behind, and value equality. All these things actually make a community live in harmony.
Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there’s a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento… and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
