It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

Society exists for the benefit of its members not the members for the benefit of society.

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB what you have to do where in the West you can go or not to go.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

In my view there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness of virtue and sin among the members of a society.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

If I can get some student interested in science if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program then my job's been done.

We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress and some very new members who will no longer be serving with us.