Quotes About Society

while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.

To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That's crazy. But that's 'okay' because you look healthier.

I think honestly, believe it or not, that Dude, Where's My Car? in a way represents its time better than almost any film made around that.

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

...One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

American families only spend 17 minutes a day on average having time together.

The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying to solve stuff. You're trying to make money.

Even in the most market-obsessed society, we're still spending half of our time on something other than just getting cash.

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.