#societies

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#enables #people #societies

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#creative #globalisation #make #more #our

If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#become #certain #come #less #lot

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#adopt #considerable #either #else #fads

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#hierarchical #incredibly #mini #often #places

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#historically #inherently #oaths #open #open society

Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#cannot #constitution #cornerstone #fortress #forward

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. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#development #fixed #history #pass #series

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#almost #anyway #child #disappeared #force

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#free #free societies #protected #right #societies