Quotes About Society

For me as an artist, pop culture has so much power and influences society on a regular basis - I see it in the kids; I see it in everyone that I encounter. Everyone is influenced by pop culture whether we want to be or not.

There's a bigger percentage of good cops than bad cops. But the bad cops should be penalised like regular people.

The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people.

I always looked at rock & roll as the voice of regular people, of an economic group not in charge.

I used to cry regularly. I felt a lot of pressure to look a certain way.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces.

We can expect commercial enterprises to attempt whatever lawful ruses they can pull off. It is up to society, represented by government, to stop them, through the kind of regulation that has so far been lacking.

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

Regulatory reform must move beyond limiting the damage that the financial sector can do and ensure that the sector genuinely serves society.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

We don't live in a world where, if you commit a crime, your life's over. We as a society believe in rehabilitation. We believe in second and third chances.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

America is big enough to accommodate differences of opinion and practice on religious and social beliefs. As a nation and as a society, we must reject discrimination, forcefully and without asterisks. Most importantly, as president, I will zealously defend the Constitution of the United States and all of its amendments.

It is perfectly acceptable in a free and liberal society to criticize, debate, mock, and reject any ideology.

What's life without risks? When I made 'Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam,' everybody said in India you can never have a husband say that I am uniting my wife with her lover. The male audience would reject it, and it is a male audience and hero-oriented industry.

There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

A lot of people go through life trying to perform normalcy, and I think you can relate to that.

To reduce gaps between men and women, we will need to change the way people think, behave, and relate to each other.

I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list.