Media has the ability to make good seem evil and evil seem good.
Duncan William GibbonsTag: society media news good-and-evil
Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems
Lauren KateTag: politics humanity society silence usa world-problems teardrop
Unfortunately, we don't have all that many good examples to follow. The people that our cultures label as "successful" are the ones who have become wealthy or famous or celebrities, but the truly successful people--those who have become happy and who are living happy, loving, giving lives--aren't often featured in our newspapers or newscasts. We see the politicians and the criminals and the athletes and the entertainment "stars," but we don't see the people who can truly inspire us to be happy by being just who we are.
Tom WalshTag: happiness society culture role-models being-ourselves
As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect
Joao MatodTag: society change perfection imperfect imperfection perfectionism inspire
Yet through virtuous living man is further ordained to a higher end, which consists in the enjoyment of God, as we have said above. Consequently, since society must have the same end as the individual man, it is not the ultimate end of an assembled multitude to live virtuously, but through virtuous living to attain to the possession of God.
Thomas AquinasTag: politics society philosophy political-philosophy king
Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.
Kenneth MinogueTag: politics history society poverty
Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.
Raheel FarooqTag: individuality love humanity society
The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.
Christopher FowlerTag: society civilization conversation deceit
I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're looking into the void. We thought that we were liberating people from oppressive cultural circumstances, but we were, in fact, taking something away from them. We were killing off civility and concern. We were undermining all those little ties of loyalty and consideration and affection that are necessary for human flourishing. We thought that tradition was bad, that it created hidebound societies, that it held people down. But, in fact, what tradition was doing all along was affirming community and the sense that we are members of one another. Do we really love and respect one another more in the absence of tradition and manners and all the rest? Or have we merely converted one another into moral strangers - making our countries nothing more than hotels for the convenience of guests who are required only to avoid stepping on the toes of other guests?
Alexander McCall SmithTag: society nationalism civilization civilisation culture tradition
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
Abraham FlexnerTag: progress society freedom-of-speech evidence complacency fundamentalists extremists free-discussion religious-extremists religious-fundamentalists
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