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They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'
History shows that societies where opportunity is safeguarded tend to be societies that are good international citizens.
Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.
I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.
What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?
Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.
Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere.
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.
The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.
When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.
A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
Western societies in general and universities in particular have not always been immune from institutional sexism. This is incontestable.
5G will have an impact similar to the introduction of electricity or the car, affecting entire economies and benefiting entire societies.
Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.
Climate neutrality means a situation where the world can naturally absorb the emissions that will continue to be produced in our societies.
Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.
The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.
It has taken centuries to create the freest, fairest, most prosperous societies in the world, and there have been lots of studies about this.
My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments.
Humanity's always been weird at heart. Look at how societies form, rituals, practices, even rock n' roll. Humanity really is dark and twisted.
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.
Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies.
Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.
Classic English liberalism of the sort that 'The Economist' was founded to champion and still espouses is about open societies and free markets.
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.