I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.
Matthew Lesko
Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.
Lawrence Lessig
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... →
Doris Lessing
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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... →
The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.
Michael Leunig
A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play... →
Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much... →
The 'economy' became a god such as never before, and a happy, successful society was one that could please this god - sometimes by... →
There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately... →