But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security. Arlen Specter on society
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. Christopher Lasch on society
What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others. Tony Campolo on society
I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. Jessica Hagedorn on society
The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. Joe Biden on society
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society. Joe Biden on society
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. David Mamet on society
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. David Ogden Stiers on society
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. Charles Horton Cooley on society
What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it. Mark Levin on society
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. John Ralston Saul on society
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. Susan Sontag on society
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. Friedrich August von Hayek on society
The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. James Baldwin on society
One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way. Thomas Frank on society
We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from. Thomas Frank on society
Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society. Thomas Frank on society
Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN. Thomas Frank on society
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system, the society. James Hillman on society