And I do believe that the way to change a society to uplift people - not just their spirit but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so there can be no human society as we know it.
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and further will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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.
That sort of half sigh which accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head is pity's small change in general society.
It is change continuing change inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is but the world as it will be.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture not politics that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.
The courts cannot garnish a father's salary nor freeze his account nor seize his property on behalf of his children in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got bringing all these new inventions into the works before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically socially ethically and morally.
Thanks to my mother not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
In a completely rational society the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Society in every state is a blessing but government even in its best stage is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
The true republic: men their rights and nothing more women their rights and nothing less.