People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.