My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.
I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.
I joined the Aspen Institute, which is a terrific nonpartisan center. They have a wonderful effort that focuses on the impact of communications technology on society and our economy.
All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.
Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.
I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.
