Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to talk to each other, and about each other, are the most important words in our language: they tell us who I am, they tell us who you are, they tell us who 'they' are.
Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.
You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
In 5,000 years of recorded human history. . . neither in the east or in the west. . . has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history. That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
I have tried to defend what is most precious to our American society, a society that is now at war against the forces of racial intolerance. A big part of me making the decision was how important the play is for the times that we live in. This is a classic. It's a masterpiece of American playwriting. It's about discrimination and it's about we Mexicans being a target for so many years.
Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.
You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.
Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.
Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?
I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.
To be social is to be forgiving.
So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?