3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
3 December 2020 R. D. Laing We are all murderers and prostitutes – no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson The trouble is it’s very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
3 December 2020 Bayard Rustin When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
3 December 2020 Bruce Springsteen You can’t have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can’t get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
3 December 2020 Michel Foucault Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
3 December 2020 Joe Biden The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
3 December 2020 Michael Haneke Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
3 December 2020 Edward Bond Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
3 December 2020 Marian Wright Edelman Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
3 December 2020 Lawrence G. Lovasik The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another’s defects, and the bearing of one another’s burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
3 December 2020 Olof Palme The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
3 December 2020 David Ogden Stiers We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
3 December 2020 Johnny Rotten Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
3 December 2020 Jenny McCarthy Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.
3 December 2020 Raymond Chandler Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.
3 December 2020 Jack Kingston Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
3 December 2020 Ernestine Rose Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute ‘Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.’
3 December 2020 Denis Diderot Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
3 December 2020 Tipper Gore Our society’s strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
3 December 2020 Iain Duncan Smith A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
3 December 2020 Charles Kuralt I can’t say that I’ve changed anybody’s life, ever, and that’s the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
3 December 2020 Karl Rove Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
3 December 2020 Robert Frost Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
