And nothing embittered me which is important because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action you know.

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies even if those societies are side by side.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

The Constitution as originally drawn made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment if you can't think creatively you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

The farther a society progresses the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

Those who suffer are not those at the top but are the less privileged members of society.

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person and the whole society and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.