The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles or control?

I have in some ways saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive still get through it.

In this I-me society my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

In a repressive society a writer can be deeply influential but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

In a society which is structured the wrong way piety has no effect.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society what we owe to ourselves.

Terms like that 'Humane Society ' are devised with people like me in mind who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

I come from a line of self-motivated determined folk - not grand not high society but no-nonsense family-minded go-getters.

The labor of women in the house certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

When I got out of acting school I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots ' and for society not me it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion and I was not.

My main concern is theater and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish and it has to do better.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Realizing our society as it is without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it and being humane toward that society that is all that we're sure of.

When you've paid your debt to society you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools neither more nor less.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in where money is a little harder to come by things continue to get expensive gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.