Ours is a consumer society based upon consumption of goods and services and sometimes the conspicuous consumption of both.
Forging a balanced and equitable society based on a strong moral foundation — a good society that checks a turbo-charged capitalism that pays no heed to human and environmental costs — is a challenge that looms large in 2012 and beyond.
The courageous actions by the citizens in Wisconsin are an inspiring defence of the core values of this country: a civil society based on freedom of association, healthy and stable communities that value public services and the public good.
Cobb also co-authored a book with Herman Daly in 1989 entitled For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, Environment, and a Sustainable Future, which outlined policy changes intended to create a society based on community and ecological balance.
It's a society based on hate.
Hamas wants to establish a society based on sharia law.
But why should a society based on lies be protected?
And if you have a society based on that insecurity, that's a bad society".
Ours remains "a society based on violence".
"We are a society based on meritocracy," he told El Mundo.
