Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind men were constrained in the absence of any other form of discipline to turn to discipline of the military type.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

But on the other hand I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

The only part of the conduct of any one for which he is amenable to society is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself his independence is of right absolute. Over himself over his own body and mind the individual is sovereign.

An emancipated society on the other hand would not be a unitary state but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

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.

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.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others they are dragged down by the mass either by ridicule or slander.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child but in all reality I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

It's been a hard time to celebrate to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans and here I am.

I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.

I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

Most smiles are started by another smile.