Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. Anita Brookner Society
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. B. F. Skinner Society
There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society. Maria Montessori Society
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for. Helen Suzman Society
When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society. George Soros Society
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. Dennis Prager Society
I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form. Andrew Cuomo Society
The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way. Steven Weber Society
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. Charles Kuralt Society
Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone. Bernard Werber Society
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. Paulo Coelho Society
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? Terry Pratchett Society
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. Miriam Makeba Society
Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?' Alison Gopnik Society
Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. Salman Rushdie Society
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. Honore de Balzac Society
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience. Diane Paulus Society
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it. Matt Gonzalez Society