3 December 2020 George McGovern I’ve come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
3 December 2020 David Cameron The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Manson We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
3 December 2020 Jerry Garcia But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, ’cause you’re not going to get it from what’s around you. And society isn’t going to give it to you.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
3 December 2020 Milton Friedman Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? What is greed?
3 December 2020 John Lennon My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
3 December 2020 Michel Foucault Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
3 December 2020 Ajay Devgan Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.
3 December 2020 Samantha Morton My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today’s society.
3 December 2020 Jodie Foster I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them – and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.
3 December 2020 Jessica Simpson It’s not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.
3 December 2020 Nathan Fillion I’ll never look down on and I love running into actors who say ‘Oh yeah, I did a soap.’ I say ‘Tell me which one!’ It’s like being a member of a secret society.
3 December 2020 Fareed Zakaria The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
3 December 2020 Jessica Savitch In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
3 December 2020 Kathy Acker 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.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.
3 December 2020 Joseph Ratzinger Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
3 December 2020 Terri Apter Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
3 December 2020 David Korten Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
3 December 2020 Iain Duncan Smith We have to challenge the whole idea that it’s acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don’t have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
3 December 2020 Peter Kropotkin The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
