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Including everyone in the economic, wealth-creating
life of the nation is today the best way
for Labor (Australian Labor Party) to meet
its twin goals of raising national prosperity
and creating a fair and decent society.
Julia
Gillard - Social
- Australia
- Economy
- Wealth
- Goals
We see community organizations as major
service providers and economic drivers rather
than as recipients or distributors of charity,
and coordinators of volunteers. Today they
constitute what’s referred to as ‘the
social economy’.
Julia
Gillard - Social
- Economy
- Philanthropy
The concept of social inclusion in essence
means replacing a welfarist approach to
helping the underprivileged with one of
investing in them and their communities
to bring them into the mainstream market
economy. It’s a modern and fresh approach
that views everyone as a potential wealth
creator and invests in their human capital.
My reason for adopting such an approach
is simple: at a time when Australia needs
more skilled people and has an ageing population,
we simply can’t afford to have one
in ten or more of our people out of the
workforce due to unemployment, low skills
or the effects of chronic poverty. Social
inclusion is an economic imperative.
Julia
Gillard - Social
- Australia
- Economy
- Wealth
- Skills
- Poverty
- Help
- Employment
We have to shift our emphasis from economic
efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable
quality of life and to healing of our society,
of our people and our ecological systems.
Janet
Holmes a Court - Economy
- Environmental
- Life
For Indigenous Australians, equal rights
and citizenship have not always translated
into full participation in Australian society.
All Indigenous Australians have only been
counted in the census since the 1967 Referendum.
Even so, State protection and welfare laws
continued to control the lives of Indigenous
Australians and denied them equal rights,
well into the 1970's.
Jackie
Huggins - Human
Rights - Indigenous
- Australia
- Politics
- Society
We are a company that lives and breathes
a philosophy that’s centered on not
only making sound business decisions but
also personally and professionally finding
ways to contribute to the well being of
society. We are also a company that understands
community.
Magic
Johnson - Community
- Business
- Giving
- Companies
- Philosophy
- Decisions
- Society
- Understanding
Communism forgets that life is individual.
Capitalism forgets that life is social,
and the kingdom of brotherhood is found
neither in the thesis of communism nor the
antithesis of capitalism but in a higher
synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis
that combines the truths of both. Now, when
I say question the whole society, it means
ultimately coming to see that the problem
of racism, the problem of exploitation,
and the problem of war are all tied together.
These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
Martin
Luther King Jr - Truth
- Life
- Racism
- War
- Evil
- Communism
- Capitalism
- Questions
- Social
- Problems
I know that love is ultimately the only
answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going
to talk about it everywhere I go. I know
it isn't popular to talk about it in some
circles today. I'm not talking about emotional
bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking
about a strong, demanding love.
Martin
Luther King Jr - Social
- Love
- Emotional
- Problems
- Strong
Power properly understood is nothing but
the ability to achieve purpose. It is the
strength required to bring about social,
political and economic change.
Martin
Luther King Jr - Power
- Social
- Understanding
- Strong
- Change
- Politics
- Economy
- Achievement
Today we have a temporary aberration called
“industrial capitalism” which
is inadvertently liquidating its two most
important sources of capital.. the natural
world and properly functioning societies.
No sensible capitalist would do that.
Amory
Lovins - Economy
- Challenges
- Environmental
Just as the savage must wrestle with nature
to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce
life, so must civilised man, and he must
do so in all social formations and under
all possible modes of production.
Karl
Marx - People
- Nature
- Social
Between capitalist and communist society
there lies the period of the revolutionary
transformation of the one into the other.
Corresponding to this is also a political
transition period in which the state can
be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship
of the proletariat.
Karl
Marx - Social
- Capitalism
- Communism
- Change
- Revolution
- Politics
- Proletariat
- Class
- Dictator
Under private property, each tries to establish
over the other an alien power, so as thereby
to find satisfaction of his own selfish
need. The increase in the quantity of objects
is therefore accompanied by an extension
of the realm of the alien powers to which
man is subjected, and every new product
represents a new potentiality of mutual
swindling and mutual plundering.
Karl
Marx - Property
- Power
- Selfish
- Assets
- Social
- Satisfaction
We intend to conduct our business in a way
that not only meets but exceeds the expectations
of our customers, business partners, shareholders,
and creditors, as well as the communities
in which we operate and society at large.
Akira
Mori - Management
- Business
- Customers
- Society
- Partnership
- Stocks
By using vertical space more effectively,
you not only make more room for greenery
but shorter commutes also mean less pressure
on CO2 emission problems and by freeing
up time now spent on unproductive commuter
trains, people would have more options in
their lives.
Minoru
Mori - Real
Estate - Innovation
- Society
- Environmental
The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous,
and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city,
Tokyo must be used more efficiently and the population density increased.
Minoru
Mori - Japan
- Real Estate
- Society
- Environmental
The world has entered a new era, evolving from an industrial into a knowledge-based
society, and into a society that wants to live in harmony with nature.
Minoru
Mori - Real
Estate - Society
- World
- Knowledge
- Nature
Barack,
like any leader, is human. And, you know,
our challenges in this country isn't finding
the next person who's gonna deliver us from
our own evil. Because our challenges are
us. The challenges that this country faces
is how are we as individuals in this society
gonna change? What are we gonna do differently?
Michelle
Obama - USA
- Change
- Politics
- Leadership
- Challenges
- Society
- Evil
When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an
experiment to see if people could use the
Internet to be empowered through access
to an efficient market. I actually wasn't
thinking about it in terms of a social impact.
It was really about helping people connect
around a sphere of interest so they could
do business.
Pierre
Omidyar - People
- Internet
- Business
- Power
We don't need a weakened government but
a strong government that would take responsibility
for the rights of the individual and care
for the society as a whole.
Vladimir
Putin - Government
- Weakness
- Responsibility
- Strength
- Society
We need to develop respect for our history,
despite all of its flaws, and love for the
Fatherland. We need to pay the utmost attention
to our common moral values and consolidate
Russian society on this basis. I think that
this is an absolute priority.
Vladimir
Putin - Society
- Russia
- Respect
- History
- Values
- Priorities
- Patriotic
We still have a great amount of work to
do in social development, including resolving
one of the biggest challenges we face in
this area, namely, reducing the gap between
high-income earners and people, citizens
of our country, who are still living on
very modest means indeed. But we cannot,
of course, adopt the solution used 80 years
ago and simply confiscate the riches of
some to redistribute among others. We will
use completely different means to resolve
this problem, namely, we will ensure good
economic growth.
Vladimir
Putin - Society
- Russia
- Challenges
- Solutions
- Problems
- Rich
- Economy
- Growth
Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy.
Fourteen years ago, independently, without
any pressure from outside, it made that
decision in the interests of itself and
interests of its people.. of its citizens.
This is our final choice, and we have no
way back. There can be no return to what
we used to have before.
Vladimir
Putin - Society
- Russia
- Democracy
- History
- Decisions
Politics is about power. It is about the
power of the state. It is about the power
of the state as applied to individuals,
the society in which they live and the economy
in which they work. Most critically, our
responsibility in this parliament is how
that power is used: whether it is used for
the benefit of the few or the many.
Kevin
Rudd - Politics
- Power
- Social
- Economy
- Responsibility
Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver
of economic development.
Kevin
Rudd - Social
- Economy
- Education
When the people become involved in their
government, government becomes more accountable,
and our society is stronger, more compassionate,
and better prepared for the challenges of
the future.
Arnold
Schwarzenegger - Government
- People
- Strength
- Challenges
- Compassion
Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum
of happiness and a number of empty thoughts
which life lays on their plates. They are
kept in the road of life through stern necessity
by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.
Albert
Schweitzer - Life
- Philosophy
- Happiness
- Society
Participant (Productions) is the only production
company in town that has a double bottom
line: social good plus financial returns.
It's too early to tell how our returns are
going to look - though all signs are promising
- but social good is what we're really after.
Jeff
Skoll - Media
- Profits
- Companies
- Business
Ethics - Social
- Earnings
Philanthropy is all about making a positive
difference in the world by devoting your
resources and your time to causes you believe
in. In my case, I like to support causes
where "a lot of good comes from a little
bit of good," or, in other words, where
the positive social returns vastly exceed
the amount of time and money invested.
Jeff
Skoll - Philanthropy
- Positive
- World
- Belief
- Social
- Money
- Change
I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a
place of excellence and the impact of this
tiny community on the world is completely
disproportionate to its size. We are the
undisputed leaders of technological change.
But with our abundance of talent and resources,
we also have the opportunity to be the pioneers
of social change and, ultimately, this may
be our greatest contribution.
Jeff
Skoll - Business
Ethics - Social
- Belief
- Change
- Silicon
Valley - World
- Technology
- Talent
- Opportunity
The goal here is to build a brand around
social relevance in media (with his Participant
Productions company).
Jeff
Skoll - Media
- Social
- Goals
- Branding
Ethics
or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based,
and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being
able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much
easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This
is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you
can go away and get it done.
Kerry
Stokes - Business
- Social
- Business
Ethics
- Trust
- Deals
The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling
mega-corporations have a huge influence
on our daily lives. And because of the competitive
nature of our global economy, these corporations
are generally only concerned with one thing..
the bottom line. That is, maximizing profit,
regardless of the social or environmental
costs.
David
Suzuki - Companies
- Profits
- Products
- Business
Ethics - Social
- Earnings
- Influential
- Environmental
- Consumer
Our personal consumer choices have ecological,
social, and spiritual consequences. It is
time to re-examine some of our deeply held
notions that underlie our lifestyles.
David
Suzuki - Environmental
- Consumer
- Spiritual
- Ecology
- Social
We no longer see the world as a single entity.
We’ve moved to cities and we think
the economy is what gives us our life, that
if the economy is strong we can afford garbage
collection and sewage disposal and fresh
food and water and electricity. We go through
life thinking that money is the key to having
whatever we want, without regard to what
it does to the rest of the world.
David
Suzuki - Environmental
- Consumer
- World
- Economy
- Social
- Life
- Money
The Indian stands free and unconstrained
in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her
guest, and wears her easily and gracefully.
But the civilized man has the habits of
the house. His house is a prison.
Henry
David Thoreau - Nature
- Indigenous
- Society
Poverty has been created by the economic
and social system that we have designed
for the world. It is the institutions that
we have built and feel so proud of, which
created poverty them.
Muhammad
Yunus - Poverty
- Economy
- Capitalism
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