On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid violent and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

In return society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best though true is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?