Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously there's no way of avoiding violence which is so present in society.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

I would argue that we have a generation of young people particularly minorities who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

As in geology so in social institutions we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.