The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.
The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.
Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.
Sports are a microcosm of society.
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.
It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.
All progress means war with society.
I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off.
A society gets the criminals it deserves.
You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football.
