American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
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.
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.
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.
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.
A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.
Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.
Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.
It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.
Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.
I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called 'Ooh La La,' that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.
Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.
I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
