We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.
Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society.
My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.
Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.
What I really like about 'Red Band Society' is how real it is, and the experiences that they are going through are experiences that everyone is bound to go through at one point or another in their lives.
The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.
The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a tho...
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
