Quotes of: Free-society Keyword

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.

Dan Harmon

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

David Korten

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

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.

Joseph Campbell

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

Jared Diamond

Society collapses when no two come together as one; however, when things do come together true beauty can occur.

James C. Reeves III

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.

Joseph Lancaster

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.

Kofi Annan

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.

Katherine Dunn

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.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

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.

Os Guinness

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.

Nhat Hanh

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.

Tony Blair

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.

Barry Ritholtz

John Keating: No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Dead Poets Society

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter: [addressing the court] Twenty years spent locked up in a cage considered as a danger to society.

The Hurricane

Danny: Now, they tell me I paid my debt to society. Tess: Funny, I never got a check.

Ocean's Eleven

In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.

Major Owens

There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will explode in our society if we do not address the huge amount of suffering in our midst.

Marianne Williamson

'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

J. G. Ballard

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

Mo Yan