Top 1200 Enlightened Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much, to tell you the truth.

For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone in the society.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society.

It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.

A society without firearms is, in the end, a society of dim-witted, collectivist bean farmers.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. Of course we accept drunkenness. We allow people some brief respite from the material grind. A society that subscribes to that model is a society that is going to condemn the states of consciousness that have nothing to do with the alert problem-solving mentality.

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges, and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.

The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.

We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.

If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

A person who is enlightened does not have to reincarnate, or they may. If they chose not to, they can go beyond the wheel, and slide into nirvana.

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. And the way African men treat African women is total unacceptable.

My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary.

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.