You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>