Jean Piaget
Psychologist, Philosopher
"Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual."
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Rajiv Gandhi
Politician
"Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together."
Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief."
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"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."
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"Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self."
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"Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance."
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"Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind."
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"And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are."
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"Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity."
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"I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole."
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"We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king."
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"The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition."
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"There's only winning and losing, and in our society, as in all societies, there's the person that's doing the winning, or there's the person that's facilitating the winning."
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"The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion."
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"Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media."
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"Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters"
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"Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society."
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"Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly."
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"I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy."
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"Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God."
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"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life."
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"Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top."
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"No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies."
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