I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.
A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.
Having women in office is vital to the health of our democracy because women play a unique role in our society. By and large, women are still the primary caregivers in families, even as we have taken our place in the workforce.
Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will do, not everyone is cut out for parenthood. And, as many a childless teacher has proved, raising kids is not the only important contribution a person can make to their future.
We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
If I've achieved a higher respect for women and for their role in society, then I would be very happy. That would really be my greatest wish.
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.
Long-term career aspirations encompass emotional and intellectual impact of work on society.
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
The public school has become the established church of secular society.
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.
I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.
For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.
