We cannot imagine democracies without a vibrant civil society.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

As the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the Queen feels she cannot be seen to smile in church - and her natural reaction is to combat mirth by putting on a stern face.

The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face - it's not a smile, it's not a frown. I swear to you, that's the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, 'I cannot believe how God has blessed me.'

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.

While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.

You cannot expect a driver who has just lost a shot at pole position to run around with a smile on his face. You need to accept that he is upset in a different way to how we are upset.

I had hoped to do a lot more to help promote science in this country and in Europe, but I cannot see how that can happen. I have become toxic. I have been hung to dry by academic institutes who have not even bothered to ask me for my side of affairs.

Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

There is good science you can do in space. There is stuff there you cannot do on Earth and we can gain understanding from it.

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.