I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith...
Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.
Hope is the most evil of all emotions
But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.
We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.
You either have a civil society or you don't.
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
Become a player in the orchestra of human society.
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fac...
There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work.
I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.
If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was 'free will' that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and to have sins.
I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech.
