The writer is the person who stands outside society independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

I believe that writers unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite are at heart people who live by night a little bit outside society moving between delinquency and conformity.

America must be the teacher of democracy not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

And nothing embittered me which is important because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action you know.

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies even if those societies are side by side.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

The Constitution as originally drawn made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment if you can't think creatively you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

The farther a society progresses the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.