Top 1200 Enlightened Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.

You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.

African society and culture varies much more than European society but it's just considered 'Africa' as if they are all the same.

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

Until we get rid of racial bias, sexism, homophobia in society, it will exist in all walks of society.

A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship.

Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.

... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their bundance. Whatever we do, we are supposed to do for the sake of "making a living;" such is the verdict of society, and the number of people, especially in the professions who might challenge it, has decreased rapidly. The only exception society is willing to grant is to the artist, who, strictly speaking, is the only "worker" left in a laboring society.

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

The strength of an individual is not in his extreme freedom and libertine lifestyle, but in the stalwartness of his character and his moral vigor. The society is made of individuals. What is true for an individual is also true for the society. A society that is not founded on moral values is doomed to fall.

When we belong to a community and learn things that are no way related to our society, we live as unwanted entities in that society.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

Nobody in the society will talk about menstruation... it's a taboo in my country. That's why I'm branded by society as a psycho.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless and beginningless perfect being, is to be enlightened.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Because the pernicious opposition by Satan continues, the continuous enlightened guidance of the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential.

Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.

The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.

An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.

Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.

We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.

The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.

Ultimately, it is only a powerful civil society movement which can break the vicious cycle of corruption in any society.

A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

To the extent that the academy is producing people who are talking utter nonsense, and imagining that it is sophisticated and enlightened - that system is a failure.

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's only nirvana for the enlightened.

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.