Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their e...
Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society.
I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.
My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.
Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere th...
At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeu...
We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.
I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want.
Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.
I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.
Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.
Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.
