All social interactions require some loss of freedom.

At first, I was shocked that Diane could even suggest this family reunion [on television], and then I realized this is just the way of the world, or at least the way of fin de...

Cos there’s holes in this world,see. Holes. And the likes of Thommo, and Keith, and me, and Kenny, we just sort of fall through em. We weren’t never bad kids, we just didn’t have nothing...

I found him completely dishonest and totally likable, because he doesn’t care.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

If we all said people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.

We are an open and democratic society that makes no distinctions and shuts no one out.

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness...

I’m interested not only in that it’s beautiful and that it’s Gorham, but also what it tells us about society.

Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe… the very cold space dust… will eventually come together to form a star.

You can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next, by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest, by their preference for the...

I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think — society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But...

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes… You will be...

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

I begin with the respect that the anarch shows towards the rules. Respectare as an intensive of respicere means: ‘to look back, to think over, to take into account.’ These are traffic rules. The anarchist...

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the...

Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at...

The measure of a society is its compassion.

She observed the dumb-show by which her neighbour was expressing her passion for music, but she refrained from copying it. This was not to say that, for once that she had consented to spend a...

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed.