“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.”
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“Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.”
“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.”
“Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.”
“Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.”
“Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.”
“If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.”
“I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.”
“I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.”
“What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.”
“Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.”
“Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.”
“Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.”
“Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.”
“My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.”
“When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.”
“The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.”
“I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.”
“Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.”
“I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.”
“In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.”
“The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.”
“In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.”
“A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.”