A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Because we believe that our ethnic group our society our political party our God is better than your God we kill each other.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life ever and that's the real work of the world if you want a better society.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation for want of a better word of mundane things.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

The only society I like is rough and tough and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

The smarter the journalists are the better off society is. For to a degree people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher the better the student body.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

Think what a better world it would be if we all the whole world had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.