"However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world"

"A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity"

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence"

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another"

"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves"

"The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone"

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion"

"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity"

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society"