Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: society

If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.

Where civil society thrives, governments operate with more transparency and accountability. This creates a tangible impact on the lives of everyday citizens.

All over the world, independent and strong civil society - NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates - help governments solve problems and better serve their people better by shining a light on the issues that matter most - like education standards, access to healthcare, the rule of law, and economic opportunity.

Where civil society is welcomed, communities are more safe, more secure, and more prosperous.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

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.

Seek out your brothers and sisters of other cultures and join together in building alliances to put an end to all forms of racial discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. There are people of good will of all races, religions, and nations who will join you in common quest for the betterment of society.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Aphrodite-Venus had become not a subject of adoration, but an agent of exploitation. From the moment Christian society perceived sex not as a gift of the goddess but a crime against God himself, women were believed to be the vessels of love's malign power.

History was invented as a tool, an engineered road down which human society could advance.

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.

You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

For society to progress, we should not only move forward but also clean up after ourselves.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.

The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Athletes can definitely have an impact on society. And it's great that athletes can be a part of uniting the population.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.