Quotes About Society

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.

Men have to be freed from the tortures of heavy clothing that covers everything but the face and hands.

Heck, I feel guilty getting my senior discounts.

People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and act like these people who can't or won't pay their bills are the dregs of society.

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

I am a sociologist, God help me.

I think the growing disregard for the environment, culture, and heritage is a natural consequence of capitalism.

Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans defined themselves by their Constitution. That is what creates us. This is our heritage, and you must know our heritage.

I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community.

I have always been against the gangster as hero.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

There will always be haters. Small heroes can change society every day. It just takes time.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'

I can't just go out in a T-Shirt and say, 'Hey, today I'm not wearing a bra.'

Atheism is having a heyday in the born-again United States.

We live in a capitalist society. I think if anyone, in any field, was approached and someone said, 'Hi! You know that job you are already doing? Would you like to do it next week for quadruple your normal pay?' Show me one person who would say no.

That's the biggest part of going to church. You just learn how to hide your bad in front of people.

When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't separate children's contact with the adult world today.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.