Healthy Society Quotes:

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

- Joni Eareckson Tada

topic: Healthy, Care, Hallmark, Disadvantaged, Healthy Society

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

- Abraham Maslow

source: "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 31, 1954.

topic: People, Healthy, Needs, Basic Needs, Healthy Society

I learned that a healthy society is made up of loving, trusting individuals, and that these individuals in turn protect their environment, become stewards of our land, air and water, and they make peace, rather than war.

- Robin Lim

source: "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: War, Air, Land, Stewards, Healthy Society

Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The question is where societies choose to put their creative efforts

- Christopher Flavin

topic: Future, Creative, Effort, Healthy Society, Sustainable Development

The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn't filter it through a republican system you'd be just as likely to end up with a tyranny of the majority as you would with a healthy society. Don't worry, I won't quote the Federalist Papers, but trust me, it's in there.

- Jonah Goldberg

topic: Worry, Healthy, Democracy, Tyranny Of The Majority, Healthy Society

If we dont figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, were not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.

- Tim Wise

topic: Jobs, Real, School, Housing, Good School

Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical, and menial levels of the economic process, is a serious weakness, and possibly even a fatal one, in any national society. The fully healthy society would find ways to meet those needs out of its own resources.

- George F. Kennan

topic: Healthy, Weakness, Inability, Healthy Society

I think theoretically if a man is young and healthy society should not give him a basic income. He should not be given dole. He should not be eligible for welfare. If he can work and if there is work available, he should take his choice. If he wants to be a hermit or beggar, that's fine. If he wants to move with the sun and live off the land, that's fine. If he is in a society which has work for him I don't think he should theoretically be eligible for welfare.

- Pierre Trudeau

source: Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

topic: Moving, Men, Thinking, Healthy Society

How good it is to work in the invigorating fresh air under the life-giving sun amid the inspiring beauty of nature. There are many who recognize this... How good it is to earn you livelihood by contributing constructively to the society in which you live - everyone should, of course, and in a healthy society everyone would.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.55, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Air, Giving, Healthy, Healthy Society, Livelihood

A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.

- Don Feder

source: Don Feder (1993). “A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America”, Vital Issues Pr

topic: Numbers, Giving, Healthy, Life Affirming, Affirming

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Lonely, Hate, People, Healthy Society, Illegal Drugs

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.

- Earle Brown

topic: Healthy, Needs, Culture, Healthy Society

I am passionate about reading, for myself and for kids. Our future as a compassionate, productive, healthy society is rooted in our continuing to engage our minds and spirits. The key for me is in keeping it joyful as an activity.

- Emma Walton Hamilton

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Reading, Kids, Keys, Healthy Society

The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and non-religious segments of society. The euthanasia idea came from neither the radical right-wing nor the conservative corner. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought.

- Gotz Aly

topic: Religious, Class, Wings, Modern Age, Non Religious

If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Powerful, Healthy, Fundamentals, Relativity, Healthy Society

There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.

- Octavio Paz

topic: Art, Thinking, Healthy, Untouchables, Healthy Society