I want to create a society that is working for me and with me - and I am working for society, not against it.
Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
[The Yippie demonstrations] were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society. . . and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason. . . Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
The needs of a society determine its ethics.
Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.
While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.
Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?
Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.
You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.
I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.
My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.
I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one.
A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.