3 December 2020 Neil LaBute We live in a disposable society. It’s easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name – we call it recycling.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts I’m looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I’m not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
3 December 2020 George Soros My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It’s their work that I’m supporting. So it’s not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.
3 December 2020 Barry Commoner The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
3 December 2020 Antonio Banderas We are now integrated into American society and I don’t like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it’s going to pass. It’s not like that anymore.
3 December 2020 Thomas Babington Macaulay 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?
3 December 2020 John McCarthy There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that’s when he doesn’t forget them.
3 December 2020 Brit Hume We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.
3 December 2020 V. S. Naipaul Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
3 December 2020 Bear Grylls I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
3 December 2020 Sam Donaldson And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can’t just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it’s much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
3 December 2020 John Perry Barlow You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
3 December 2020 A. Bartlett Giamatti A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
3 December 2020 Henrik Ibsen The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
3 December 2020 Adam Smith No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
3 December 2020 Tim Robbins I’ve used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
3 December 2020 Tim Berners-Lee Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
