Top 1200 Peaceful Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

This one's for you, and I truly hope you hear me, Through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey.

The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.

To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated heavily by big-money interests.

The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.

Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

The values of democracy, brotherhood, and freedom that constitute the building blocks of American society are also shared by Israeli society, together with the faith in man's power and ability to change and influence his surroundings.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

I have read Geminis are peaceful, who have an eye for finer things. That ways, yes, I'm a true Gemini.

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

It's amused me the writers who have assumed that I was referring to a hateful quality of society in the '80s. I think that degree of hatefulness is pretty much steady throughout human history. To me, it's just an amusing sense of self-deprecation - my hateful years. It was entirely personal; it was my personal, hateful years, when I most overtly tried to lash out at society. As I used to say: it was an attempt to burn society down to the ground.

I have a bigger, peaceful view of life than aggressively breaking down other people.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.

Iran . . . has failed to take the opportunity to demonstrate that its nuclear program is peaceful . . . time is not unlimited.

By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.

For me a good body is a combination of peaceful mind, positive energy and physical exercise.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out.

Are you coming along peaceful-like, or am I going to have to hog-tie you and put you in the car?

My 20s were peaceful, privileged, but still I felt the desire to write angsty dramas.

As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

You know the Middle East is going crazy when Lebanon is the most peaceful place in the region.

God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself.

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.

Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for ill desert but because, on his theories, they were a disease in society. If society can mend, remake, and unmake men at its pleasure, its pleasure may, of course, be humane or homicidal. The difference is important. But, either way, rulers have become owners.

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?

In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice' might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society. Such a conception of justice seeks to correct, not only biased or discriminatory acts by individuals or by social institutions, but unmerited disadvantages in general, from whatever source they may arise.

Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is simply a lie, an alibi for the inequalities that exist in society.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.

Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.

Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.

There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.

Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.

It is true that a competitive market is not the whole of society. A great deal depends on the qualities of the population and the nation in how they organize the non-market aspects of society.

Over the last 50 years or so, we have seen an increasing cultural diversification across the country. Accents are a reflection of society, and as society changes, so accents change.

The journey of the flame is what brings the Games closer to society and allows society to take part in the Games.

I am not a city guy; I like peaceful surroundings and maybe a walk around a lake.

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.

Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

This is why we have a chief medical officer: to set a norm in society, make judgments on behalf of society, so that individual schools or individual parents don't have to decide.

The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.

Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something I get from my family.

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

A job is a person's identity in a society, his way of living, and his relevance in society.