The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai E. Stevenson

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
Steve Allen

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
Tadao Ando

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
William S. Burroughs

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
Stella Adler

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

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

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
J. Edgar Hoover

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