Society

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. – Joseph A. Schumpeter

And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time. – David Miliband

I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is. – David Miliband

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff. – Ethan Hawke

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war. – Lester B. Pearson

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. – Talcott Parsons

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory. – Jimmy Swaggart

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. – John Kasich

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society. – Oliver Tambo

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist. – Johann Most

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. – Johann Most

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. – Hu Shih

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. – John Madden

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society. – Bianca Jagger

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. – Alexander McCall Smith

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. – Herbert Read

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. – Herbert Read

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. – Herbert Read

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society. – John Key

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. – Herbert Read