As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body.
John Keating: This is a battle, a war, and the casualties could be your hearts and souls.
Neil: So what are you going to do? Charlie? Dalton: Damn it Neil, the name is Nuwanda.
John Keating: I SOUND MY BARBARIC YAWP OVER THE ROOFTOPS OF THE WORLD.
John Keating: Carpe diem, seize the day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
Chet Danburry: Next time I see you, you die.
Richard Cameron: You can't save Keating, but you can save yourselves!
Nicholas: You don't know anything about society, Marie; you don't have the satisfaction of avoiding it.
The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to money.
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
Let's face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they're waving is something Bad Religion has stood against.
The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.
It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.
The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.