Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future.
We've become a plastic society.
There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.
Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.
Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.
Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do.
I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'
An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.
I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
