• "Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking." - Jessamyn West Tweet
• "Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society." - Jean Baudrillard Tweet
• "One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way." - Thomas Frank Tweet
• "Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology." - Jonathan Sacks Tweet
• "America's a very traumatized society." - Alanis Morissette Tweet
• "Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society." - Herbert Spencer Tweet
• "No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good." - Mark Zuckerberg Tweet
• "As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society." - Lauryn Hill Tweet
• "Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society." - Shirley Manson Tweet
• "There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them." - John McCarthy Tweet