The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper. – Sanford I. Weill
I believe that democracy is about values before it is about voting. These values must be nurtured within society and integrated into the electoral process itself. – Tzipi Livni
We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people’s power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans. – Samora Machel
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. – Steve Allen
I use the term ‘disabled people’ quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what’s called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses. – Stella Young
Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society. – will.i.am
There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts – decoration of surfaces and bodies – appears to be a human universal. – Steven Pinker
Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent political blasphemies I can think of. – Wole Soyinka
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. – Tim Berners-Lee
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society. – Taylor Hackford
I believe Israel needs branding. I want that the word ‘Israel’ will relate not just to an Israeli soldier or a camel, but Israel as an advanced liberal society with a strong economy and great people. – Tzipi Livni
You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it’s upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don’t like old women. We don’t honor age in our society, and we certainly don’t honor it in Hollywood. – Tyne Daly
Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute. – Thomas Pogge
The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection. – Thomas Bulfinch
The argument that somehow we’ve got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school. – William H. Gray
Scotland’s political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans. – Tariq Ali
If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation. – Victor Ponta
In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society. – Samina Baig
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people’s lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. – Zaha Hadid
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion… was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society. – William Robertson Smith
For a long time, I couldn’t even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society. – Zong Qinghou
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions. – Tom Wolfe
A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they’re really tied into each other. They’ve been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point. – Tino Sehgal
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it. – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
What’s happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. – Seth Lloyd
My grandmother is still a woman who worries about what she looks like when she goes outside. She’s from that era, and I can remember saying to her, ‘Grandmother, we’re just going to the grocery store.’ And she’d be like, ‘I’ve got to fix my face!’ You were very aware of how you were presenting yourself to society in 1960s Las Vegas. – Vinessa Shaw
I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don’t describe anything in the society outside. – Stieg Larsson
