The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
Howard Cosell

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
David Hume

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Angela Davis

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Angela Davis

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
Angela Davis

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
Man Ray

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
George Will

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
Mao Tse-Tung

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
John W. Gardner

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
John Madden

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Michel Foucault

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
Michel Foucault

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Michel Foucault

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
Michel Foucault