No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.
Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.
Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.
All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.
There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.
As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.