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All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.
Edward Bond on society

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
Edward Bond on society

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Edward Bond on society

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
Edward Bond on society

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
Ludwig von Mises on society

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
C. Northcote Parkinson on society

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
Pauline Hanson on society

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
James Earl Jones on society

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
Herschel Walker on society

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
Sargent Shriver on society

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.
Roger Goodell on society

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.
Walter Gropius on society

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
Kevin Kelly on society

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
Eric Schmidt on society

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
Ernestine Rose on society

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
Tadao Ando on society

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.
Tim Berners-Lee on 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.
Herman Kahn on society

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
Marat Safin on society

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.
Todd Gitlin on society