What I really like about 'Red Band Society' is how real it is, and the experiences that they are going through are experiences that everyone is bound to go through at one point or another in their lives.
The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.
The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a tho...
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn't yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well.
In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.
India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic s...
Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.
