Top 1200 Enlightened Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society of owners: a Proprietarial Society. It was one in which there remained strong bonds between one class and another, and in which there was a hierarchy of superior and inferior, but not, in the main, a distinction between a restricted body of possessors and a main body of destitute at the mercy of the possessors, such as our society has become.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.

Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is

We live in a very masculine society, a very patriarchal society, still. So we also have the benefit of the experience of that society. We're not coming from 'women's world' into filmmaking, we're coming from 'the world.'

Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.

To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were to set up a perfect government out here which required the intervention of nobody, you would have destroyed the society. But by raising the individual ability of the persons in the society within the framework that they are able to view, raise their ability within the framework they are able to view, you would have achieved a marked advance for that society.

If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong to society and that he, as a member of society, has the right to dispose of them...that psychological confession reveals the enormity of the extent to which altruism erodes men's capacity to grasp the concept of rights or the value of an individual life.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

Becoming enlightened doesn't mean everything works your way.

Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function.

The world has never had a greater need for enlightened women and men.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another.

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

The scriptures recommend love and service to the enlightened to develop purity.

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.

I'm not interested in the wellbeing of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings and only the individual can grow. Each one is enormous and tremendous in his own way-each one is unique.

Work is the way we contribute to society, part of a reciprocal social contract - the giving of our effort and our taking when in need - that holds our society together. We work, we build our society, and we share in its prosperity.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Enlightened beings are rare in the universe. They are the joker in the deck. They are outside the circle.

Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day.

Prosperity in human society is misunderstood. The difference between a rich and poor society is the number of problems that society solves for its citizens. That means technological innovation is the source of all prosperity, but with every tech innovation, you also get disruption - ultimately, social and civic disruption.

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetu6 for the suppression of the old society by the new.

You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

I think Islam, for me, helped me see how similar we all are. If my views are not traditional it's because of being raised in American society. Things that are taboo in an Islamic society are magnified in this society: drinking, extramarital affairs, all kinds of stuff like that. I have to apply the human aspect of all our culture dictates . . .

At the end of the day, if millions of people come together and say, we are not going to be a xenophobic society, we are not going to be throwing millions of Latinos out of this country, we are not going to be a racist society, we're not going to be a sexist society, we will prevail.

The enlightened being can look through states of mind, but they are also outside of them.

Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.

Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.