Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants’ civilization, you are part of the group; you don’t live for yourself alone.
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.
Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that’s who you are. Don’t try to be someone that society wants you to be; that’s stupid. So be yourself.
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.
I often tell my students not to be misled by the name ‘artificial intelligence’ – there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans’ lives and human society.
Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.
No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society – and well worth fighting for.
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
We need to make sure we’re all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society.
We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Where civil society is welcomed, communities are more safe, more secure, and more prosperous.
