The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. – John Paul Stevens
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. – Marian Wright Edelman
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. – Stokely Carmichael
Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is. – Michael Haneke
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone – not just those who have the resources to seize political power. – Harry Browne
The public school has become the established church of secular society. – Ivan Illich
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs. – John Charles Polanyi
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. – George Mason
Australia has an increasingly multicultural society. – Julie Bishop
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? – Thomas Babington Macaulay
As society advances the standard of poverty rises. – Theodore Parker
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see. – Naguib Mahfouz
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted. – Ray Dalio
Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts. – George Osborne
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives. – George Osborne
Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive – making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families. – Dirk Kempthorne
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. – Adrienne Rich
Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not? – Kurt Russell
We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration. – Martin Sheen
Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society. – Robert Carlyle
