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The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world. Reed Hastings

Government World Internet Become Fiber Costa Rica Laying Throughout Roads Over Trying Happening Rican Paving Societies

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature. Richard Engel

War Best Nature Human Nature Our Worst Out Horrible Horrible Things Most Does Often Human Human Beings Beings Things Societies Brings

A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on great democratic societies but on imperialism, absolute rule, kings, queens, monarchs, dictators. Rocky Carroll

Great History You World Free Society Books Rule Kings Absolute Imperialism Look Democratic Democratic Societies Democratic Society Queens Norm History Books Dictators Monarchs Based World History Societies

It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries. Rory Kinnear

Cities Easy Develop Countries Quite Villages Societies

Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter. Samantha Power

Sad Genocide Walls Build States Tried Tries Record Architects Generally Almost Contain Shatter Around Inevitably Western Governments Century Shows United United States Societies Last Last Century

I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first. Shirley Temple

First Country Meeting Join Federation Volunteer Always Prague Go August Hand Up Get Goes Wanted Which Asked Vienna International Czechoslovakia Multiple Multiple Sclerosis Societies

When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Life Women Men Stronger Country Building Both Economic Economic Life Economies Equal Women And Men Contribute Help Societies Basis

I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because states like the United States depend on the story of our wars for our ability to narrate our history as a unified story. Stanley Hauerwas

War History Experience Language Sacrifice Important Depend Think Our States Ability Remains Like Most Particularly Because Common Story Which Unified Wars United United States Societies

Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women. Stephanie Coontz

Parenting Marriage Women Men Men And Women Way Sexuality Main Division Between Longer Labor Which Organize Regulate Societies

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who remained single: They were seen as mutually exclusive ways of life, with different legal rights and social obligations. Stephanie Coontz

Life History Rights Obligations Legal Made Seen Single Whatever Relative States Distinctions Ways Those Married Mutually Mutually Exclusive Remained Sharp Between Exclusive Most Were Legal Rights Different Social Who Societies

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own. Steven Pinker

Own Our More Were Than Far Societies Violent

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. Susan Sontag

Blame Evil Identified Becomes Which Victims Illness Societies Need

Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves. Tariq Ramadan

Life Diversity Real Life Tolerance Our Ourselves Would Seem Rising Invoke Withdraw Discomfort Real Theory Societies Levels Raise

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom. Tariq Ramadan

Freedom Fear Passion Our Danger Ourselves Entertaining About Allowing Most Democratic Identity Democratic Societies Blinded Serious Illusions Societies

Jihadist organizations attempt to exploit discontent among marginalized groups in unstable societies. Tedros Adhanom

Attempt Unstable Discontent Exploit Organizations Groups Among Societies Marginalized

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices. Teju Cole

Life Legal Law State Weak Punishment Intractable System Out Rarely Law Enforcement Properly Structural Take Countries Combined Courts Exist Mob Legal System Human Where Poor Capital Capital Punishment Enforcement Human Life Injustices Right Societies Belongs

By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it accumulated over the course of one historical process that has devastated the societies and cultures of four continents. Thomas Pogge

Problem Poverty Enormous Our Seeing Economic Tainted Devastated Advantage Merely Over Terms Course How Overlook Continents Cultures Historical Accumulate Process Deeply Four Societies Assistance

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. Tom Hiddleston

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. Tom McClintock

Free Believe Civilized Prisoners Hold Societies

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies. Tony Judt

Life Government Degree Relatively Exactly Small Economic Most Inequality Arrangements Opposite Conditions Role American Public American Life Social Forth American Public Public Life European Compares Societies Played

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies. Tony Kushner

Unions Befall Susceptible Same Human Ills Societies

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