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Society

If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live. – Simon Mainwaring

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society. – Simon Mainwaring

Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment. – Simon Mainwaring

Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well. – Simon Mainwaring

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. – Nat Turner

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. – Irving Babbitt

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. – Jack Kemp

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next? – Jessica Savitch

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men. – Catherine Deneuve

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. – Doris Lessing

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society. – Judith Light

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. – Lord Acton

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society. – Anne Lamott

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. – John Naisbitt

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things. – Kesha

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form. – Andrew Cuomo

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society. – Michael Bloomberg

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in. – Annie Lennox

We need proof in our society. – Shirley MacLaine