“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”
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“These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.”
“It's upsetting to be a man in our society.”
“In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.”
“No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.”
“If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.”
“What we do as a society is seek simple answers.”
“Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.”
“How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.”
“Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.”
“You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.”
“The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.”
“The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.”
“Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.”
“I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.”
“The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.”
“I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.”
“I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.”
“My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.”
“If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.”
“I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.”
“The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.”
“We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.”
“Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.”