As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to ‘free up’ more money for the ‘fit’ and those who contribute more than they take from society.
Our best and brightest must conceive of themselves as stewards of our society and confront the critical challenges of our time. It’s the best bet for our society, for entrepreneurs, and for the investors who believe in them.
Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
Empowerment of women is the empowerment of the nation. No household, no society, no state, no country has ever moved forward without empowering its women.
Politicians and leaders who see the media as ‘the enemy within’ divide society into two clashing cultural camps. Populist demagogues benefit from binary oppositions.
There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
I was growing up in a society that exerted a lot of control on people, and from both my personality and the social condition, I found gunpowder gradually as a very suitable medium for exploration.
Our job as artists, we believe, is not to make changes in society. We don’t have the ability to do that. We reflect life. We are the mirror of the society to look into. Our job is to raise questions, but we have no answers.
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
The number one taboo for boys is to be feminine, so for someone to not only override their internal directive but society’s directive is mind-boggling and heroic. It’s courageous.
The Cold War, Bosnia and Ukraine remind us that peace is fragile. Iraq and Syria remind us that no society or culture is immune from conflict.
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
I’ve always thought that the level of homelessness in society is likely to be a truer measure of how civilised we are then almost any other factor.
One of the great conundrums in philanthropy globally is that the way wealth creation happens itself often creates the inequities in society.
We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.
The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
The society in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
Empowering women leads to a more inclusive growth of society and the nation.
