“When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.”
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“This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.”
“We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.”
“I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.”
“One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.”
“I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.”
“Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.”
“Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.”
“Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.”
“I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.”
“The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.”
“The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.”
“In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.”
“At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.”
“Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.”
“What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.”
“The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.”
“There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.”
“The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.”
“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.”
“I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.”
“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.”
“To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.”
“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.”