The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.