In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.
Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes.
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.
I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'
I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.
Love can be understood only 'from the inside,' as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
