#societies

Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#citizens #democratic #democratic leaders #dependent #failing

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. ↗

— Mark Strand

#certainly #clear #cultural #cultures #i

Life was never meant to be difficult, we just make it that way so that it fits into societies and our indoctrinated concept of what things should be like. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#difficult #indoctrination #life #societies #things

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#man #masculine #only #shortage #societies

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#care #considerable #danger #elephant #even

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments. ↗

— Brad Holland

#experiments #figured #going #haven #how

And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#control #declining #develop #economic #economically

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#ages #allow #back #basic #corrupt

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#education #equitable #foundation #inclusive #quality education