Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Suicide moreover was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

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.

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.

Before I do anything I think well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.