#society

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other. ↗

— Anita Hill

#against #each #given #other #our

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#could #flies #geographical #goose #mend

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be. ↗

— Allan Houston

#children #comes #day #down #end

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#going #how #invaded #out #society

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. ↗

— Brit Hume

#easily #exquisitely #feelings #greatest #greatest things

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#also #been #our #society #unfortunately

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#encouragement #especially #extend #highly #human

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#country #entirely #exist #isolation #live

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#better #civil #civil society #direction #energy