Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
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.
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.
We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told.
It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'
Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.
Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Everything in our society is so purposeful.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They become hermits. They try to do everything alone.
Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society.
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.
I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.
Positive energy is meant to give people confidence and hope, encourage people to love their country, society and life, as well as to pursue nice things. Everything we do is ultimately for the sake of spreading positive energy.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
