The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.
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.
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
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.
Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.
I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.
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.
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
I've never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I'm more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don't really get what makes them tick.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.
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.
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
