I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. Don DeLillo
Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all. Charles Rangel
If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems. Corey Feldman
Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless. Gary Bauer
The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment. Gary Bauer
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society. K. D. Lang
I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked. Gerard Butler
I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine. K. D. Lang
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief. Jeff Miller
Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes. Judi Dench
We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste. K. D. Lang
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. Kofi Annan
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. John Cheever
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players. Kofi Annan
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. John Perry Barlow
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. Johann Kaspar Lavater
You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us. Shailene Woodley
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society. Samantha Morton
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. Thom Mayne