“I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.”
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“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”
“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.”
“We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.”
“Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.”
“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
“Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.”
“We should try to create the society we would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.”
“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.”
“My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.”
“Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.”
“The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.”
“The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.”
“That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.”
“We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.”
“In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.”
“The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.”
“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”
“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”
“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.”
“Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.”
“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”