I use the term ‘disabled people’ quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what’s called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.
We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don’t get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again.
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
You can’t have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can’t get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions in family, or in society, or on earth. The results may be termed geology, or sociology, or poetry.
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet’ner of life, and solder of society.
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
So Am I’ is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in – just celebrating what really makes you different.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile.
The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free – the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.
Until we get rid of racial bias, sexism, homophobia in society, it will exist in all walks of society.
Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look – or at least reproduces our reality.
I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought – again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
In the East, the main object is to have a well-ordered society so that everybody can have maximum enjoyment of his freedoms. This freedom can only exist in an ordered state and not in a natural state of contention and anarchy.
My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell’s notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we’re close to that.
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
