“The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.”
Society is the agreement we all live under without ever signing a contract. These quotes examine culture, community, inequality, progress, and the ongoing negotiation between individual freedom and collective responsibility.
“Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.”
“The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.”
“Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.”
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.”
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
“It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.”
“I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.”
“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”
“I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.”
“If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.”
“Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.”
“Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.”
“We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.”
“All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.”
“The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.”
“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.”