The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story whether in print orating writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.

I mean Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople teachers and educators journalists. So we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.

And the truth is those who are terrorists only have to succeed once and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.

Then I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So then I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

Economic progress in capitalist society means turmoil.

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.

Acting the arts in general is a magnet for the wounded of society.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

We live in a very dysfunctional society and this is a very very dysfunctional Administration.

Society questions the police and their methods and the police say Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid violent and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

In return society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

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?

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression and sort of as a result these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.