Quotes About Society

My father taught us that to thrive, excellence in technology, quality, and customer service along with cost competitiveness is a prerequisite. His contribution to business, the economy, and society at large can never be underscored enough.

I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.

When we empower women, society benefits, grows, and thrives.

We can have a political system that works for the people and allows for the economy to thrive. It doesn't have to be either.

Without a holistic care infrastructure to support us, our economy and society simply cannot thrive.

It only makes sense that as our society becomes more and more integrated with technology, we'll start to see more cyborgs, grinders, biohackers - whatever you want to call us - thriving at the intersection of tech and body modification.

A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.

A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.

What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force.

You can't jam change down the American people's throat.

I've been trying to cram myself down the throats of America for a longer time than I care to remember.

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

If, through death penalty, we can create fears, though it's against my will, we have to do it.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

Easy, simple and great laws, which await nothing but a sign from the lawgiver to spread prosperity and vigour throughout the nation, laws which would earn him immortal hymns of gratitude down the generations, are those which are least considered or least wanted.

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.