And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know. – James Earl Jones
I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people – segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically. – Jeb Bush
If we as a society do not understand ‘the cloud,’ in all its aspects – what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we’ll all be the poorer for it, I believe. – John Battelle
All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal… wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own. – John Lydon
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. – John Charles Polanyi
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. – Judith Martin
I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin. – Jane Velez-Mitchell
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits. – John Naisbitt
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? – Honore de Balzac
My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA. – Ibrahim Rugova
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that’s not equity, it’s just creating a society where you can’t ask anything of people. – Jacques Delors
The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the plug on society. – Joel Salatin
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. – Jose Saramago
Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society. – James Gleick
There may be some difficulties, some interruptions, but as a nation and as a people, we are going to build a truly multiracial, democratic society that maybe can emerge as a model for the rest of the world. – John Lewis
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders. – Jan Koum
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don’t go out of their way to do each other favours. – Jacques Delors
I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children. – Jerry Hall
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? – John Lennon
I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all. – Joyce Meyer
But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people. – Isabelle Huppert
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men. – Isaac Barrow
There’s a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance. – Helen Fisher
I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality. – Italo Calvino
Never again can the Republican Party simply write off entire segments of our society because we assume our principles have limited appeal. They have broad appeal. We need to be larger than that. – Jeb Bush
