Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan Sontag

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
Jack Kevorkian

There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.
Lynette Fromme

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
Morihei Ueshiba

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin

The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
Emma Goldman

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Benjamin Disraeli

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
W. H. Auden

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
Dean Koontz

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.
Dean Koontz

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Howard Zinn

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
Ralph Nader

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
Charles Horton Cooley

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
Marilyn vos Savant

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
Marilyn vos Savant