The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated. Margaret Atwood
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. Edwin Louis Cole
There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be. Allan Houston
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. Nelson Mandela
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. Robertson Davies
There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. Doris Lessing
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. John Burroughs
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead. Mike Schmidt
We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house. Janet Fitch
We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery. Allan Houston
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. Doris Lessing
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. Frederick Douglass
Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society. Donald Miller
You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West. Bernard Lagat