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Quotes About Challenges

No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.
~ Ashoka
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
~ Barbara Jordan
We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
~ Jerry Garcia
Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.
~ Shakira
When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.
~ Haim Ginott
What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.
~ Helmut Newton
At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.
~ Tupac Shakur
That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
~ Shirley Chisholm
I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.
~ Charles Mingus
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
~ Carl Sandburg
The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.
~ Harold Laski
If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.
~ Kim Campbell
I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
~ Jacque Fresco
I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
~ Steve Buscemi
Ja, ich wollte versuchen, dankbar zu sein, aber es geht nicht, Johanna, die Kinder haben mein Leben verdreht, und keiner hat mir gesagt, es würde so kommen, als sei das eines der größten Geheimnisse der Menschheit und niemand dürfte es preisgeben.
~ Zsuzsa Bánk
Lomhlaba Unzima, Lohmhlaba. This world is a harsh place, this world.
~ Zulu Proverb
las ciudades se han convertido en el basurero de los problemas engendrados globalmente.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Real dialogue isn't about talking to people who believe the same things as you.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.
~ A. Lee Martinez
It makes for a complicated relationship, but what's life without a few well-chosen complications? Dull, that's what.
~ A.E. Maxwell
Suffering is the finest teacher," said an old friend long ago. "It teaches you details.
~ Abigail Thomas
Creative thinking is not stimulated by vicarious issues but by personal problems.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel