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«Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.»
«In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.»
Author: John J. Sweeney
| About:
Democracy,
Globalization,
Leadership
| Keywords:
authoritarian, globalization, impose, societies, sustained
«Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!»
Author: Marvin Minsky
(Educator, Electrical engineer, Mathematician)
| Keywords:
cars, drives, for example, individual differences, societies, the left
«Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
| About:
Creativity,
Originality
| Keywords:
affecting, a million times, boundaries, compelling, destinies, millions, originality, palaces, profoundly, roots, roots of, societies, The Force, The Roots
«It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from»
«In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
Chiefs, infancy, institutions, societies
«It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent ''celibacy,'' by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity ''backward.''»
Author: Germaine Greer
| Keywords:
backward, Californian, Californians, celibacy, chastity, discarded, fatally, folk, no value, perverse, restraint, societies, Western
«Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.»
«Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
flawless, hotels, mirrors, social service, societies
«Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women»
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