Societies Quotes

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A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

- Audrey Hepburn

In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it`s still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.

- James Welch

But we have to recognize the limits on our power and the fact that our ability to bring about changes in other societies is, is declining.

- Samuel P. Huntington

And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.

- Samuel P. Huntington

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

- Christiane Amanpour

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

- Jacques Chirac

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

- James Farmer

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

- Northrop Frye

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

- Richard Dawkins

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

- Sally Quinn

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, they finish by loading honors on your head.

- Jean Cocteau

Clearly, it is in the interests of Western societies to help protect indigenous cultures,

- Paul Cox

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

- Dan Brown

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

- Tony Snow

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

- Tony Snow

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

- Lawrence Lessig

Although images of perfection in people`s personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

- Dennis Prager

In most of history, societies have not been free. It`s a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

- Michael Novak

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.

- Dennis Hastert

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.

- David Attenborough

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.

- Guy Debord

In these days of an increasingly powerful music industry, authors` societies represent creators` unique collective bargaining power for securing a fair remuneration for the use of their works anywhere in the world. At the bottom of the value chain, creators are even more vulnerable in the digital age. Authors` societies remain the only safeguard for protecting our rights and accessing the marketplace.

- David Ferguson

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

- Marcus Garvey

All societies are historical.

- Raymond Queneau

Societies and economies can be destroyed by bombs. Societies can also be destroyed by locking every aspect of life like provision of food and water through an economic war.

- Vandana Shiva

You`ll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.

- Neale Donald Walsch

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

- Bill Richardson

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. It is education that allows us to see that we are in this for the long haul, and it is education that will give us the tools we need to build a better future.

- Bill Richardson

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

- Al Carter

The truth is, we haven`t really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We`re all experiments.

- Alain Couder

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

- Alan Justad

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

- Alan Pardee

There`s a long record here of being wrong. There`s a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don`t have free and open societies.

- Alan Schlesinger

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who`s going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.

- Alasdair Haynes

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

- Alex Hittle

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

- Alex Okosi

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

- Alexander Nikonov

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we`re living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

- Alexandre Pasini

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

- Ali Aoun

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

- Ali Aoun

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

- Ali Aoun

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

- Ali Aoun

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

- Ali Aoun

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

- Ali Aoun

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

- Allan Bristow

An impression has gone abroad that I am engaged in forming societies. This is a very great mistake, which I feel bound to correct.

- Alleggrie Guinn

Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

- Alleggrie Guinn

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

- Allen Rossum

I certainly can`t speak for all cultures or all societies, but it`s clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It`s not part of the cultural mainstream.

- Amanda Abel

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

- American Council