Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

Inclusive good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism not being able to see one's face not being able to have some sense of communication in that way is for many societies a challenge.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business their real passion is performing amateur operatic societies and so on.

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent subtle and sophisticated people with organized societies and great art.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.