Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
we are the ones we have been waiting for
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.
A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.
In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it.
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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.
Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society, to make non-violence an organizing principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift in our culture for human development, for economic and political justice and for violence control.
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
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