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Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. Atifete Jahjaga

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. John F. Kennedy

People Word Free Society Secrecy Secret Oaths Open Open Society Opposed Historically Very Repugnant Inherently Societies

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. Gore Vidal

Time You Vote People Words Disguise Election Language Liberate Will Own Confuse Action Too Destroying City Time People Decadent Against Interests Used Grow Illuminate Grows Societies

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens. Samuel Adams

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. Marcus Garvey

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. Benjamin Disraeli

Day Other Secret Everywhere Ministers Kings Merely Also Deal Governments Upset Which Agents Plans Moment Present Societies Last

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies. Desmond Tutu

Education Inclusive Equitable Dynamic Foundation Societies

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least. George Whitefield

Sad Together Christianity Neglecting Ourselves Religious True Perhaps Least Decay May Reasons Many Assemble Among Societies

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. Northrop Frye

People King Stupid Sheep Back Easily Ancient Fact Particular Like Perhaps Most Metaphor Due Shepherd His Affectionate Goes Egypt Human Gregarious Being Convention Formed Use Societies

To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members. Ban Ki-moon

Success Autism Our Those Valued Members Ability Examine Well How Integrated Different Persons Should Full Measure Including Societies

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality. Helen Clark

Equality Gender More Towards Shift Any Sustainable Include Serious Societies

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind. Cotton Mather

First Combinations Families Mankind Societies

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness. Daniel Goleman

Sunk Weight Ugliness Buried Societies

Who I am really doesn't matter at all. If I'm the worst person in the world, you can hate me and move on. What really matters here are the issues. What really matters here is the kind of government we want, the kind of Internet we want, the kind of relationship between people and societies. Edward Snowden

Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another, and yet we have these standards and beliefs, and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking, in almost all the societies of the world. Ezra Miller

In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed. Fatema Mernissi

Equality Strict Sex Leader Islam Politicians Virtue Everything Has-Been Able Almost Thus Supporters Between Almost Everything Principle Islamic Renounce Been His Human Human Beings Regardless Central Manipulate Race Far Convince Beings Fundamentalist Societies Creed

In the matriarchy, which happens in a little microcosm across the blogosphere, we have these mini 'women in control' societies. And what I've noticed... is, under the guise of empowering women, they end up being real cruel. And I think, 'Jeez, here in my patriarchy, we wouldn't do that.' Gavin McInnes

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. Geraldine Brooks

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. Jared Diamond

Me History People Differences Seems Between Environments Namely Attributable Continental Continents Human Different Pattern Themselves Among Societies Biological

The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction is akin to setting fire to our lifeboat. Johan Rockstrom

Destruction Value Fire Setting Our More Ecosystems Makes Stable Wanton Which Prerequisite Biodiversity Societies Resilient

Multicultural societies are multi-conflict societies. Marine Le Pen

Multicultural Societies

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