The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
A job is a person's identity in a society, his way of living, and his relevance in society.
Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.
Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
To Mahatma Gandhi, the key to India's progress was the development of its villages. In his unified vision, education, agriculture, village industry, social reform all came together to provide the basis for a vibrant rural society free from exploitation and linked to the urban centres as equals. Our planning incorporates this basic insight.
If people get their feelings hurt from jokes, then they are too delicate to be in society.
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
There are so many people and organisations that work quietly and diligently for the poor and the disadvantaged. We should also work with unity and purpose to ensure that the benefits of government policies reach all sections of society.
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
It is not a fragrant world.
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.
A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other's culture without compromising its own.
Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress.
Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.
I think it's important to hold a mirror up to society and yourself.
Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.
Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.
Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.
Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not teach us to see this as a loss. Pause for a moment and consider the magnitude of this message: We lose nothing of value by having no cross-racial relationships.
The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.
We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.
I've only ever written about one thing in my life, which is the fact that we, as human beings, have a responsibility to one another and that it's important that we empathize with others, that we organize society so that we all become happier and we all get the life we really want.