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.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations the relations within which these individuals stand.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
You have to promote yourself you have to have this smile on your face all the time and be this nice guy - which I am!
While you're improvising you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out you know that hey we're having fun.
She felt like a chess player who by the clever handling of his pieces sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
I love a good laugh as well I think that's so important in life which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.
So my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.
I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me but I also smile right back if someone waves which helps.
He taught me never to smile which helps me when I visit disaster sites.
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
I started in this racket in the early '70s and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America of which I was like the sixth president I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
But the power of science lies in open publication which with the rise of the Internet is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.
I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which at the same time assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
Even in our day science suspects beyond the Polar seas at the very circle of the Arctic Pole the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war which have been evolved in the minutest detail.