Society Quotes
Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.
Peter F. Drucker
Prema (love): practise that; develop that; spread that; and all the hatreds and jealousies of today will disappear. That is the duty of the Divine Life Society, here as well as elsewhere.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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How terribly downright must seem the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
Yvon Chouinard
This Johnson is a queer man.
S. C. Johnson Sr.
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When war, as in these days in Iraq, threatens the fate of humanity, it is ever more urgent to proclaim, with a strong and decisive voice, that only peace is the road to follow to construct a more just and united society. Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of man.
Abu Nidal
If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
Mencius (Mengzi)
A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.
Che Noir
Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does “culture” become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.
Socrates Sandor
Recognizing our responsibilities as industrialists, we will devote ourselves to the progress and development of society and the well-being of people through our business activities, thereby enhancing the quality of life throughout the world.
Matsushita Kōnosuke
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
R. K. Narayan
No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
Peter Drucker
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My mother would really make me notice the world of women, and in Latin America they have a kind of magic in that they make society function in every kind of intimate way, as well as in the bigger picture.
Lila Downs
By keeping historical events in their proper perspective, theology helps safeguard society and the Church from regarding as permanent what is only temporary. Critical reflection thus always plays the inverse role of an ideology which rationalizes and justifies a given social and ecclesial order.
Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino
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I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.
Tishani Doshi
When SARS occurred 17 years ago, JD was a very small company and we personally experienced then just how devastating an epidemic situation can be to both businesses and the people's lives. That's why today, JD will do everything we can within our power to serve our customers and as well as society.
Liu E
I hope that youngsters and civil society organizations and every Indian will feel proud. It is a noble cause to work for the rights of children. It is a movement against child labour and everyone must join it.
Kailash Satyarthi