In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, ‘What is real?’ Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.

A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other’s culture without compromising its own.

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.

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.

If society will not admit of woman’s free development, then society must be remodeled.

Voting is how we participate in a civic society – be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It’s the way we teach our children – in school elections – how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice.

I think it’s important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven’t had the right mentors and supporters around them – because of circumstances beyond their control.