I know where we today in Europe have enormous influx of. . . in the last decades of people from Islamic countries, that our society has changed. That it has worsened for that reason.
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
I think the idea that a society has to be responsible for all of its citizens, those who do well and those who do not, is really a precondition of a good society.
We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
"Who are we to say what is right and what is wrong?" is the common refrain under the doctrine of pure pluralism. Clearly, society cannot long survive if this principle is pushed to its logical conclusion and everyone is free to write his own laws.
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.
The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.
Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion
To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it.
The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.
Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.
Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?
Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
