Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.
The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.
John Keating: We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you.
Neil: If I don't ask him, at least I won't be disobeying him.
We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.
Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.
If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.
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.
It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
