“War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.”
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“Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.”
“You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.”
“But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.”
“What is a society without a heroic dimension?”
“We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.”
“I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.”
“If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.”
“If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.”
“In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.”
“Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.”
“A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.”
“Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.”
“Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.”
“We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.”
“If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.”
“We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.”
“AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.”
“Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.”
“If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.”
“Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.”
“Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.”
“Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.”
“Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.”