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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
The rude, raw, 'let it all hang out' freedom of the Californian hippies was in fact the most censorious and oppressive of societies that I have encountered.
The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.
We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable.
That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.
All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.
Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed to be God's Law.
To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.
Friendly societies, educational associations and trade unions gave working people the power to shape their own lives.
If you look at the primitive societies that we know about, the worst thing that could have happened to you was to be captured and be turned over to the women.
It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.
Over the ages, some societies have accorded far less value and respect to singles than to married individuals.
To use the terms that are reserved for official enemies, it is the commissars and apparatchiks, not the dissidents, who are respected and privileged within their own societies.
Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
Climate neutrality means a situation where the world can naturally absorb the emissions that will continue to be produced in our societies.
The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken.
I had to read up on the Freemasons, about secret societies, and dip my toe into art history.
When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.
Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.
History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.
We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.
Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder. All these niggas is corn, sworn in secret societies, devils with no horn.
People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live
While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.
My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments.
I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.
All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
On aging societies, there is no reason why a country that has a lot of old people can't be prosperous if, during their working lives, individuals provide for their retirement.
There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
It has taken centuries to create the freest, fairest, most prosperous societies in the world, and there have been lots of studies about this.
Historically, we've attached a lot of shame to women and their bodies - probably since biblical times. It's a way that patriarchal societies have perpetuated.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.
Western societies in general and universities in particular have not always been immune from institutional sexism. This is incontestable.
Preventing conflict means going back to basics - strengthening institutions and building resilient societies.
Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.
Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.
Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere.
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.
Elephants are social, thoughtful animals. They live in communities and - I have to say it - in matriarchal societies. They bear no grudge, but they remember well.
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.
The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.
All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.
Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.