#societies

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Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.


Howard Baker


#balance #care #changing #each #education

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.


Guy Debord


#conditions #directly #everything #immense #into

The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.


Shirin Ebadi


#also #better #certain #condition #conditions

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.


Abba Eban


#duties #embodiment #jews #living #might

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.


Dan Brown


#discuss #experiences #i #i can #interest

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.


Helen Clark


#equality #gender #include #more #serious

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.


Jean Cocteau


#beat #begins #fails #finish #first

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.


David Frum


#economic #economic issues #environment #environmental #environmental issue

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.


Marcus Garvey


#anglo-saxon #as far as #better #clubs #concerned

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.


Ferdinand Lassalle


#applies #certain #equally #etc #instruments