In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule… — Sam Kinison Copy Share Image
A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child… — GloZell Copy Share Image
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds, for since it has been disposed to make the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“A responsible citizen is the one that sees something wrong in the society, something he is not satisfied with or that he… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Society sets us up to be everything but ourselves, but I want to take a moment and say to people, love yourself.… — Karen Civil Copy Share Image
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Man in society is like a flow'r, Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
If we are going to remake society in the image of the fight against terrorism and put that secret fight at the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
If we want to revive and achieve the American Dream, we need to change a situation in which the people whose hard… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to… — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
As far as the Congress and the BJP go, we should not forget that they have not even apologized for the genocides… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We have made a concerted effort to build new bonds of trust and communication between the governor's office and other corners of… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
Cable television is such a part of our society now. Oftentimes, the shows are really good, and you're just like, 'Well, it's… — Kerris Dorsey Copy Share Image
#MeToo shows this bias is systemic, that people get away with violence against women, get away with discrimination - whether in work… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
I do hope that 'Interstellar' and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
I think drag helps move us in the direction of loosening up the man/woman binary. The idea that you're one, or the… — Alaska Copy Share Image
Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to… — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
I feel like we're in a place as a society where it feels like the problems that exist need to be talked… — Jason Ralph Copy Share Image
“There will always be motive for crime, if we ever get to a point where people attacking each other in the streets… — C. Auguste Dupin Copy Share Image
“The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings.… — Jeff Miller Copy Share Image
Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image