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Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.