A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers

More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery