Spreuken over Society

We are confident that with this kind of support, we will be able to build a very democratic society with a free market economy.

But then, Wagner added, the adolescent is also far more developed than the newborn and yet society values both lives equally. The burden for pro-choice advocates, therefore, is to demonstrate that the change a human undergoes as she develops from a fetus to a newborn [is] so different from all future developments that it alters her ontological status entirely. They must also show that the value of a human being depends on the characteristics that he or she acquires rather than on the kind of thing that it is.

The gap between rich and poor has been growing in all parts of our society. We're facing a problem if, in a competitive society such as ours, there are an increasing number of people who can't compete.

We sense that the attitudes in society are changing about the death penalty, that people are reconsidering their earlier attitudes about it.

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.