Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society
Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.
My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian
Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.
If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
Society collapses when no two come together as one; however, when things do come together true beauty can occur.
In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians.
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable the country to surmount the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century.
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.
But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
John Keating: No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.
Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter: [addressing the court] Twenty years spent locked up in a cage considered as a danger to society.
Danny: Now, they tell me I paid my debt to society. Tess: Funny, I never got a check.
