• People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress o

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.1 · 37 votes · 195 reads

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• Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.5 · 40 votes · 115 reads

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• The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously invested in the cutting-edge technologies. And those technologies which are obsolescent get dropped out.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.8 · 53 votes · 167 reads

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• The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  4.0 · 24 votes · 143 reads

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• There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 167 reads

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• There are winners and there are losers. And as much as we would like to help the losers, if we do it in the way that directs the limited capital of the society to support the low-productivity parts of the economy, it means that the rest of the economy - o

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.2 · 41 votes · 75 reads

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• There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.7 · 39 votes · 71 reads

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• There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.5 · 11 votes · 194 reads

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• Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.9 · 23 votes · 4 reads

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• We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.5 · 14 votes · 58 reads

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• We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.9 · 22 votes · 61 reads

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• When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.2 · 42 votes · 154 reads

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