Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
If you want to get the top position in the society then you have to be do something difference for the society.
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the cruci...
Hence the vocation of the Church of Christ in the world, in political conflict and social strife, is inherently eschatological. The Church is the embassy of the eschaton in the world. The church is the image of what the world is in its essential bein...
Everything that rises will fall. Empires, societies, governments. None of them lasts forever. Why? Because even though they are the products of change, they become resistant to change. The longer a society survives, the more it clings to its power, a...
Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he sto...
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled ho...
It is intellectually dishonest to present the Republican Party as the only supporter of Zionism and Israel. The Democrats, while posing as an alternative to the right wing, are just as dedicated to Israel and they are far more dependent on Jewish vot...
I started out as a Democrat.
Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?
The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion.
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.
In the human society, it is difficult to find all angels flapping there wings and all saints singing halleluya.
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
