#society

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#beneficial #central #development #involves #men

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. ↗

— David Antin

#dialogue #future #inside #oral #past

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society #beauty

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#appreciation #attorney #both #deep #defense

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. ↗

— Paul Berg

#biology #human #human values #ideas #impact

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#basic #commissions #democratic #democratic society #evolving

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#hollywood #kind #lead #neurosis #obsession

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#democracy #element #finally #liberal #liberal democracy

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#acts #armed #back #back up #good

Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where. ↗

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#know #problem #resolves #science #society