I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.
What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.
Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
For black and brown people, caring for ourselves and each other is not a neutral act. It is a necessary and radical part of the struggle to create a more just society. Our healing and survival are essential to the fight.
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.
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.
Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.
To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
Hamilton had a certain social versatility, and in a way, that is understandable because he's someone who rises up from the lowest rungs of society and then scales the top. And he gets to know people from every strata along the way.
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
