Society

"For every one torturer, there are a thousand people ready to risk their lives to save another. For every soldier who shoots in a neighborhood, there are a thousand compañeros who help and protect each other." - Isabel Allende ...

"Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members." ...

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

"It's too bad the people who really know how to run the country are so busy cutting hair and driving taxis." - George Burns ...

“If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy." - Ralph Ellison ...

"There are more slaves today than at any point in history. 12-27 million forced to work at subsistence pay under threat of violence. The US government estimates 50,000 people work in hidden bondage.  90% are used for sex, indentured domestics ...

"In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." - Aung San Suu Kyi ...

“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.” - Ivan Illich ...

"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from ...

"There is not only a physical deafness which largely cuts people off from social life; there is also a "hardness of hearing" where God is concerned." - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ...