The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls and the bane of all good society.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society it is a good thing if you possess great talent to give early in your youth a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that be a snob.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed you won't be in your profession for long. In our society it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities but in Hollywood important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

Arguments are extremely vulgar for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

He who is unable to live in society or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself must be either a beast or a god.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society because I'm a part of society and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale to dynamism to consensus and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

In Iroquois society leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

I honestly don't know but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions I see a bleak future not only for American society but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.