In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.
The public school has become the established church of secular society.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.
Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.
Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
I'm all for holding each other accountable, but it feels as if we're hurling toward a society of finger-pointers, because we don't hold ourselves accountable for anything.
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
We have lived for thousands of years together, Muslims and Christians; we are part of the same society.
Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.
The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.
