If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>