3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins I’m not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
3 December 2020 Catherine Deneuve There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Putin The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
3 December 2020 James Connolly The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
3 December 2020 Talcott Parsons The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
3 December 2020 Peter Hammill The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it’s true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
3 December 2020 Shigeru Miyamoto Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it’s almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.
3 December 2020 Mikhail Bakunin Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That’s set out in the Constitution.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
3 December 2020 Stella Adler A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
3 December 2020 Barbara Bush The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
3 December 2020 George Soros I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
3 December 2020 Sally Ride For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
3 December 2020 Michael Bloomberg This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It’s not politically viable it’s not morally right it’s just not going to happen.
3 December 2020 Germaine Greer All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.
3 December 2020 Rachel Hunter The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we’re supposed to be monogamous when we’re not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
3 December 2020 Phyllis Schlafly Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
3 December 2020 Naguib Mahfouz I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
3 December 2020 Kofi Annan Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
3 December 2020 George Soros An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
3 December 2020 Roy H. Williams It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they’ve been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.
3 December 2020 Serj Tankian Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
3 December 2020 Condoleezza Rice But the truth of the matter is, we’re an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That’s why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.
3 December 2020 Herbert Read It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
