“Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”— Edward Abbey
“Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.”— Louis Althusser
“The progress of society is a progress in the discovery of the means of satisfying the wants of the individual.”— James Mark Baldwin
“Literature is a vital part of the culture; it is one of the ways in which a society constitutes itself.”— M. H. Abrams
“We live in a society cursed by too much information, in which it has become a axiom that the more we know, the less we understand.”— Stephen Ambrose
“Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.”— Martin Amis
“A people with a shrinking span of attention will quite simply be unable to play a great part in history.”— Andrew J. Bacevich
“Real empowerment is when you create a system that enables people to realize their own potential.”— Abdullah II of Jordan
“Yet, it is a simple truth that the human mind can face better the most oppressive government, the most rigid restrictions, than the awful prospect of a lawless, frontierless world.”— Eric Ambler