Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
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.
A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.
This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.