The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
Simone Weil

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone Weil

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
Raymond Chandler

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Arthur C. Clarke

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
Jose Mourinho

Women are the real architects of society.
Cher

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
Ray Charles

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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara Kingsolver

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
Brigitte Bardot

What's done to children, they will do to society.
Karl A. Menninger

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
Morrie Schwartz

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
Audre Lorde

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
Irving Babbitt

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills