Societies Quotes

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole.

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

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.

Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.