"Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse." - Doris LessingTweet
"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society." - Charles DickensTweet
"He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else." - Shel SilversteinTweet
"A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate." - Iain Duncan SmithTweet
"My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles." - Sloane CrosleyTweet
"My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better." - Anna Deavere SmithTweet
"This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country." - Marco RubioTweet
"Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values." - Christopher LaschTweet
"I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go." - Mikhail BaryshnikovTweet
"The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave." - James ConnollyTweet