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Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it. ”
My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has. ”
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. ”
Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to. ”
Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste. ”
When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills. ”
Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word. ”
Language is a social art. ”
I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas. ”
Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving kiddies in Africa - it's the overfed ones here we need to worry about. ”