Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.
Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
If you want to get the top position in the society then you have to be do something difference for the society.
