No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.
Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.
We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live
I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.
A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
. . . a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war and human suffering]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler. . . or other that crop up - these people would not able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity - and therefore I think that it is in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who should share a very serious burden of guilt, that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and more violent.
In the longer term, I hope that as Vietnam evolves into a more prosperous society with active ties to the international marketplace, it will lose its inherent suspicion of the outside world and begin to develop along the lines of what has recently been happening in Thailand and Malaysia.
A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane.
A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors
Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
Every time I see niqabs, I feel very uncomfortable because it's the opposite of my idea of opened society.
I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.