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Friedrich August von Hayek on society
Author: Friedrich August von Hayek“It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.” -Friedrich August von Hayek
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Jessica Hagedorn on society
Author: Jessica Hagedorn“I’m an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.” -Jessica Hagedorn
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David Suzuki on society
Author: David Suzuki“We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous.” -David Suzuki
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Ani DiFranco on society
Author: Ani DiFranco“Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don’t talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it’s the superstructure of human society.” -Ani DiFranco
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Herbert Spencer on society
Author: Herbert Spencer“Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.” -Herbert Spencer
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Tom Hanks on society
Author: Tom Hanks“But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I’m very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.” -Tom…
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Danica McKellar on society
Author: Danica McKellar“I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it’s not for them. It’s for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.” -Danica McKellar
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Samuel Richardson on society
Author: Samuel Richardson“If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.” -Samuel Richardson
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Tony Blair on society
Author: Tony Blair“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
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Sienna Miller on society
Author: Sienna Miller“I don’t think we live in a particularly equal society.” -Sienna Miller
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Tony Campolo on society
Author: Tony Campolo“What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense…
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Michael Bloomberg on society
Author: Michael Bloomberg“This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It’s not politically viable it’s not morally right it’s just not going to happen.” -Michael Bloomberg
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David Ogilvy on society
Author: David Ogilvy“Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.” -David Ogilvy
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Arlen Specter on society
Author: Arlen Specter“But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.” -Arlen Specter
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Edwin Louis Cole on society
Author: Edwin Louis Cole“The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.” -Edwin Louis Cole
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on society
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn“I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Pete Townshend on society
Author: Pete Townshend“I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called ‘rock and roll.’” -Pete Townshend
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J. Michael Straczynski on society
Author: J. Michael Straczynski“The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are this is where we came from and this is where we’re going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years – the last 50 years really – has lost…
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David Rockefeller on society
Author: David Rockefeller“Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.” -David Rockefeller
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Jacqueline Bisset on society
Author: Jacqueline Bisset“There’s something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.” -Jacqueline Bisset
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Garrett Hardin on society
Author: Garrett Hardin“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.” -Garrett Hardin
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Elizabeth Edwards on society
Author: Elizabeth Edwards“What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn’t value a white man because he’s a white man, but also doesn’t value a woman because she’s a woman, or a black because he’s a black.” -Elizabeth Edwards
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Ajay Devgan on society
Author: Ajay Devgan“Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.” -Ajay Devgan
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Mary Wollstonecraft on society
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft“I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.” -Mary Wollstonecraft