We live in a society that extols mobility, autonomy and freedom,
We live in a society that extols mobility, autonomy and freedom,
Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.
(Liberty) is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme
A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. This is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society. That is what gives a nation its tone, its fiber, its integrity, its moral style, its capacity to endure.
And Asian societies and Muslim societies are increasingly resentful of our efforts to induce them to adopt our values.
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you Thats one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population the intelligent ones or the fools I think we can agree its the fools, no matter where you go in this world, its the fools that form the overwhelming majority.
This may seem on its face reasonable. But I envision a time when every public street and every corner has a camera and that makes me nervous. That's not the society I want to live in.
Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.
We offer a vision for a brighter American future, based on goals such as affordable health care for everyone, quality education, and environmental protection. We stand for a society that respects and celebrates diversity.
The only serious crime I have ever committed in free society was bank robbery during the time I was a fugitive.
In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
Sports are a microcosm of society.
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a turn-based game that lasts a long time, like Civilization.
I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.
My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
Society ought to be concerned that the federal government feels it has no accountability to anybody. They can harass and intimidate anybody they well please. It is pretty shameful.
I am sure these people have evil aims. They intend to foster violence in society, and we shall stand in their way ... We take the security of our country and our citizens very seriously,
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
Societies and economies can be destroyed by bombs. Societies can also be destroyed by locking every aspect of life like provision of food and water through an economic war.
Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, ... Tom, the Catholic Church is made up of a bunch of little men running around in black suits. But they understand death.
Equilibrium is found when within the process there's a good balance between justice and peace, which makes it clear that there must be reparation for the society and for the victims and that amnesty or pardon cannot take in atrocious crimes.
If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.
Society today is so organized that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
You cannot run a society at the high technological level with the kind of controls and stoppages and blockages on communication which exist there.
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.
Marriage is a natural and beautiful institution between a man and a woman. It's wrong for judges and politicians to destroy marriage, which is the very foundation of society.
The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
It is almost never possible to do pre-licensing studies that are large enough to find very rare events with great certainty, ... We have to find the correct balance between safety and making new preventive tools -- such as vaccines -- at a cost our society can afford.
Consequences are highly relevant, ... Not just any consequences but consequences in light of a constitutional value. . . . You can be wooden and mechanical, and the price you'll pay is a law that won't fulfill the basic principles of the Constitution, which is to help people live together in a democratic society.
In our lawsuit-happy society, focusing on personal responsibility as a way to protect our civil justice system is critical. We look forward to hearing Col. North's perspectives on how this philosophy is relevant given current affairs.
Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
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