Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work a company work a society work a civilization work.

My role in society or any artist's or poet's role is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher not as a leader but as a reflection of us all.

Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.

If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen society here would be quite civilized.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

After a shooting spree they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress rob and degrade them neither persons nor property will be safe.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.