Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

There is pleasure in the pathless woods there is rapture in the lonely shore there is society where none intrudes by the deep sea and music in its roar I love not Man the less but Nature more.

Music is always a commentary on society.

I think as an American society when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society too.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society these financial rogue practices will continue.