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The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.
There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.
I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.
Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.
The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.
No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.
Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life - whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor.
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.
It is essential that in a society, divine thoughts and power should co-exist. Simple Faith, not backed by material forces, is weak and Strength without touch of Divinity is monstrous.
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.
Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.
Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can't say anything more.
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing
Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.
Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.
The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.
I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.
It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.