I wanted to portray a newly democratized, enclosed society. I wanted to show how extraordinarily fluid people are in their embrace of other human beings.
There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one best way for a child to grow into a contented and contributing member of society.
I'm embarrassed for us as a free society that we actually want people punished for saying things we don't like.
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.
How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on society. Then the elderly would also have more disposable income to help charitable activities.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.
The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.
To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.
If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.
If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.
A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.
My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.