3 December 2020 Lee R. Raymond A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.
3 December 2020 Andy Serkis I’ve always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don’t know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I’m a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.
3 December 2020 Peter Mullan Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ – the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.
3 December 2020 Georg C. Lichtenberg Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
3 December 2020 Quincy Jones I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
3 December 2020 Vidal Sassoon Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we’re sure of.
3 December 2020 Friedrich August von Hayek It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
3 December 2020 Mike Tyson I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I’ll never be part of society the way I should.
3 December 2020 Robert Frost A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
3 December 2020 Jessica Hagedorn I’m an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
3 December 2020 Bianca Jagger Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
3 December 2020 J. B. Priestley We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
3 December 2020 Bashar al-Assad You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
3 December 2020 Baldwin Spencer It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
3 December 2020 Herbert Read What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
3 December 2020 Henry Van Dyke Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
3 December 2020 Dean Kamen An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
3 December 2020 Guillermo Cabrera Infante I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
3 December 2020 Tupac Shakur I’m 23 years old. I might just be my mother’s child, but in all reality, I’m everybody’s child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society.
3 December 2020 Daniel Radcliffe Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
3 December 2020 Robert Kennedy Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
