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It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
Homegrown terrorists are a real problem for even the most modern, democratic societies.
I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.
Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.
Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated.
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.
Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.
Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
Political Islam's parallel societies and radicalizing tendencies have no place in our country.
There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
Jihadist organizations attempt to exploit discontent among marginalized groups in unstable societies.
Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.
Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.
Both solar and wind produce too much energy when societies don't need it, and not enough when they do.
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
Preventing conflict means going back to basics - strengthening institutions and building resilient societies.
All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
No one is suggesting societies the world over should implement an expensive basic income system in one stroke.
Over the ages, some societies have accorded far less value and respect to singles than to married individuals.
Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
Care work contributes enormously to the well-being of our societies and to the sustainability of our economies.
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.
Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.
You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.
What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically.
We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.