Top 1200 Enlightened Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual?

Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.

If we get above the individualized soul's journey, you will see that we are all one. We are all one light. In that sense, we are all enlightened.

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you.

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.

If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others.

I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.

In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, 'How does our society develop? What are the problems in our society? Where is our direction leading?'

Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

If you meditate with a teacher who is enlightened, you can ride with them into stages of mind that are perhaps not available to you at this time.

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.

All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.

Society of thinking men! This kind of society has only one destiny: To Rise!

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.

O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.

No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society!

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way the black people caught up in this society can be saved is not to integrate into this corrupt society, but to separate from it, to a land of our own, where we can reform ourselves, lift up our moral standards and try to be godly.

Society has always been the free man's greatest enemy. And the free man has been society's greatest friend. How did society treat Jesus, Socrates, Galileo, or Martin Luther King? Yet look what they have left behind.

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

If we created a society based on love, it would be a society without exploitation.

That's part of the reason why we also need to focus on, how do I give to society, how do I participate in society, how do I make society a better place, because, by the way, it's good for me, but it's also good for all of us in the environment in which we live and work.

Football is represented by a diverse society and within that diverse society men's football does not reflect the diverse society that we live in.

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

God and the Gay Christian is a game changer. Prepare to be challenged and enlightened, provoked and inspired.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

I think we have moved from a shareholder society to a stakeholder society, and that has massive implications.

If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Only those who overflow with love will build the happy and enlightened world of the future.

A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.