As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
There should be - we should have a society that, whether you're catching the train to anywhere, Frankston or Cranbourne or Craigieburn late at night, you should be able to do it with safety, and, increasingly, you are.
I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.
Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.
We understand that in an open and democratic and free society, you cannot make yourself impenetrable, especially when there are more guns than there are people in the United States today.
In 21st century America, capitalism has been unfettered from the regulations that democratized it and made it serve society.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.
Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.
Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.
Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government.
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
Silicon Valley today is populated mostly by people who would consider themselves winners of the traditional race. This causes the exclusion of the voices that are vital to a round, robust society. It's beyond gentrification.
I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.
Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.
We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents one of the most complex things we know.
But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.
It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
