In much of society research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

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

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.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

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

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Suicide moreover was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

The only society I like is rough and tough and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

Before I do anything I think well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

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.

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.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Well first of all tell me is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

Society can overlook murder adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal not merely a gregarious animal but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Land: A part of the earth's surface considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.