Fifteen—it’s spelled out in the building’s custom-designed…

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

— Margaret Mead

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we…

— Ronald Reagan

Sometimes, you know, the president is a father-like figure in American society, to most Americans, even today, no matter how cynical we've become. And…

— Alec Baldwin

Public image is extremely important in American society and I observed personally that the Presidency of John F. Kennedy did much in the public…

— Henry Rosovsky

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you…

— Randall Robinson

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

— Gerda Lerner

I believe it is essential to have English as the official language of our National Government, for the English language is the tie that…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Hip-hop is contributing to American society's misogyny and racism, hyper-sexuality anti-Black representations. Hip-Hop isn't setting the standard for misogyny. No one reduces the presidency…

— Bakari Kitwana

“The Sexual plight of these children [those adolescents experimenting sexually] is officially not mentioned. The revolutionary attack on hypocrisy by Ibsen, Freud, Ellis, Dreiser,…

— Paul Goodman

“As a culture, we had no heroes. Certainly not any politician--Barack Obama was then the most admired man in America (and likely still is),…

— J.D. Vance

Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, institutions operate in accordance with…

— Richard A. Falk

I have tried to defend what is most precious to our American society, a society that is now at war against the forces of…

— Demian Bichir

I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social…

— Adolf Hitler

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a…

— Noam Chomsky

While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups, he has…

— Thomas Sowell