Societal Goals Quotes

The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

Modern, effective leadership means moving beyond the 'grand illusion' to engage the mass population and to align business with societal goals.

Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.

Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.