The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.