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#societies

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In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.


Christiane Amanpour


#basis #civil #civil society #democracies #emerging

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?


Gary Becker


#activities #agricultural #almost #bearing #certain

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.


Don DeLillo


#dangerous #jail #many #repressive #societies

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.


Christian Nestell Bovee


#development #grandest #grow #law #laws

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.


Dan Brown


#discuss #experiences #i #i can #interest

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.


Deepak Chopra


#better #engaged #everybody #health #live

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.


Helen Clark


#equality #gender #include #more #serious

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.


Jean Cocteau


#beat #begins #fails #finish #first

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.


Jared Diamond


#factors #human #human societies #independent #innovation

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.


Northrop Frye


#ancient #back #being #convention #due






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