The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.
If one can know how good a city is by its smell, one should know how good a society is by the women's status.
Many ancient (and contemporary) societies considered the sexually awakened female as both auspicious and dangerous.
Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.
I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
Unconditional love is most beautiful in any culture, in any society.
The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.
