Solitude is better than the society of evil persons. Abu Bakr
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized. Alex Grey
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. Camille Paglia
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. David Ogilvy
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. Bell Hooks
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. W. H. Auden
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. Christopher Lasch
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. Amos Bronson Alcott
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. Denis Diderot
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. James Connolly
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. Malcolm Muggeridge
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. Alexis Carrel
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. Michel Foucault
But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society. Audre Lorde
I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father. Madeleine Albright
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom. Madeleine Albright
There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are. Ian MacKaye
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate. Iain Duncan Smith