There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women and there are families.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

In every society some men are born to rule and some to advise.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men who are after all imperfect instruments working for their fulfilment.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious perhaps a weakness as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

As far as hypnosis is concerned I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior unjust and unconstitutional.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that it ought to be done by the will of the people.

There is no doubt that as a society we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws but a reformed society an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Europe which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage is a dying society with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

Well marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society we ought to aim for the ideal.

I am against marriage and I don't give a fig for society.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow being repressed for so many millennia they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.