Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.
For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.
Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.
The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed.
The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.
So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.
I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.
The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.
It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.
