We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.
Bill ClintonTags: cooperation difference humanity society
Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.
Richard FordWhere justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick DouglassTags: society justice ignorance class class-struggle class-warfare conspiracy denial inequity oppression society-denial
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich NietzscheIf everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
John LennonTags: society activism peace beatles television materialism
(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma GandhiTags: attributed-no-source society civilization eastern-civilization eastern-philosophy western-civilization western-philosophy
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
A.C. GraylingAll this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.
Marcel DuchampTags: life society god religion atheism language chess
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma GandhiTags: politics liberty society war democracy loss totalitarianism fascism
If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.
Robert BringhurstTags: writing humanity society civilization language
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