Quotes About Society

Flawed Design' is a song on the record and it explores why people feel a need to present themselves maybe not necessarily as what they actually are. It seems like in society, a lot of people want to be or try to be perfect.

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.

A government subsidized economic recovery, is not an economic recovery - it's an entitlement state.

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

And when you redefine the family other than what the Creator intended when he established it, then you look at the devolution of civilization.

As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

In a society in which the median age keeps advancing, we have no choice but to keep redefining youth.

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

If you have a harmonious society where people within the family are living in harmony... knowing what their responsibilities and duties are, and knowing how to resolve their issues and their conflicts without violence, then violence against women will be reduced, and women will feel they have a voice.

The question was never whether stop, question and frisk should be allowed; it was how it should be done. Those who claimed it should be outlawed entirely reduced a nuanced issue to an either-or argument, and unwisely answered it with a blanket ban.

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

'Collaborator' is a hostage tragicomedy, but it's also, kind of, everything I know about post-war America. Well, not everything, but it does reference a lot of the post-war period.

Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.