The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

The question is, does the punishment fit the crime? So we're not saying that we shouldn't punish people. We're not talking about a society that tolerates lawlessness. We should be very tough on people who are perpetuating violent crimes, for example. But we should make sure that it's tailored and not arbitrary.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

I knew from an online search that the Wisconsin State Historical Society, on the vast University of Wisconsin campus, held the papers of Sigrid Schultz, a spunky correspondent for the 'Chicago Tribune' who became one of Martha Dodd's friends in Berlin.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.