The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more. Elia Kazan
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. Roland Barthes
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society. Robert Blair
I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more. Nick Clegg
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society. Fareed Zakaria
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. Isabel Allende
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. Thor Heyerdahl
The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values. Tim Holden
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. Rudolf Arnheim
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society. Robert Casey
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day. Quincy Jones
He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. Shel Silverstein
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. Margaret Oliphant
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work. Dean Kamen
I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out. Jarvis Cocker
Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. Karen Armstrong
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. E. L. Doctorow
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals. Jesse Helms
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time. J. J. Abrams
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. Jessamyn West