#society

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#every #family #information #knowledge #knowledge is power

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

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #bond #develop #eager #expanding

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#know #means #much #research #society

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#american #american society #being #cut #destroy

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance. ↗

— Baldwin Spencer

#civil society #embedded #governance #hemisphere #institutions

The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#appointment #cabinet #completion #confirmation #continued

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. ↗

— Dave Barry

#chat #future #internet #shaping #society

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