3 December 2020 Lucy Powell At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
3 December 2020 James Hillman The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
3 December 2020 Barbara Jordan Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
3 December 2020 Frances O'Grady I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can’t.
3 December 2020 Jeane Kirkpatrick The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don’t at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s.
3 December 2020 Edward Bond All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It’s called competition. And competition is antagonism.
3 December 2020 Abbas Kiarostami I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
3 December 2020 Hans-Georg Gadamer Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
3 December 2020 John Kasich Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
3 December 2020 Victoria Woodhull Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
3 December 2020 Bell Hooks The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
3 December 2020 Kenneth L. Pike That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
3 December 2020 Jeb Bush I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people – segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.
3 December 2020 Evelyn Glennie Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual’s abilities.
3 December 2020 Hugh Hefner If you let society and your peers define who you are, you’re the less for it.
3 December 2020 Daniel Webster The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
3 December 2020 Herbert Read The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
3 December 2020 Ben Stein If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
3 December 2020 David Korten As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.
3 December 2020 Lester B. Pearson The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
3 December 2020 will.i.am Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
3 December 2020 Robert Sternberg If you’re not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can’t think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
