All of my grandparents came to the United States from Italy during the early years of the 20th century. I believe that my grandparents came here to take advantage of the opportunities furnished by a growing country with an open society.
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
If we begin to say, "Well, maybe we can cope better with the Russians if we also transform ourselves into a managed society, if we, as somebody put it the other day, train our soldiers to be like the Turks, who have fought so bravely in Korea, if we are willing to change our whole way of life for the sake of so-called "survival," then I think we do exactly that which threatens our survival.
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is impossible to do the same thing for motor vehicles, heating and air-conditioning systems, and computers. This project voices our conviction that a pioneering spirit with political vision can together change society and bring about an end to fossil fuel dependency.
What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?
Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.
If I were asked about what to do about the level of insecurity and anxiety in contemporary Australian society, I wouldn't start with politics and I wouldn't say too much about terrorism. I'd suggest as a first step, that you invite the neighbours over for a drink this weekend. Today a drink, tomorrow a barbeque, pretty soon, a community.
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.
Society is indeed a contract. . . . It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.
I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.
Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.