There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

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.

In much of society research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

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

We live in a society of victimization where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.