#society

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society. ↗

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#encouragement #especially #extend #highly #human

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#country #entirely #exist #isolation #live

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#between #bit #conformity #consider #exquisite

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. ↗

— Scott Fitzgerald

#fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #age

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#i #initiate #long #long term #society

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#could #flies #geographical #goose #mend

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. ↗