Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.
The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
When we empower women, society benefits, grows, and thrives.
I’m building an anarchistic society from the ground up.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone’s co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society.
Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.
Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
An artist must create. If she doesn’t, she will become a menace to society.
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society – more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
The fundamental dogma of Modernism – that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow – has created a throwaway society of disposable objects. That is sick.
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
We’re losing our way as a society. If we don’t stand up, if we don’t say what we think those rights should be, and if we don’t protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
That’s why for Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it’s white. There’s no in-between.
