Pastoral Resources

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.