A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.

You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that’s not equity, it’s just creating a society where you can’t ask anything of people.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.