Quotes About Society

The decisions we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow.

The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a complex time.

I became politicised in my mid teens, at the time of ska and 2 Tone and the Anti-Nazi League, when I'd get dressed up for a night out in my white socks and loafers, and the last thing I'd hear is, 'Have a good night - be careful of the police.'

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

Once I hit 25, people started asking me about marriage and kids all the time. I remember hitting 35 and some would ask the same questions with a strange tone, as if my life was somehow over because I hadn't yet settled into their version of happiness.

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

Tony Blair believed in a consumerist idea of democracy.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

It's just too late to ban all guns. There are 300 million. We should've done that after the Civil War - that's when we should've taken away guns and defined what militias were. But we didn't do it then, and we can't now.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

There's too many people in the world.

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school.

Too many people in the world associate democracy with their ability to go and buy more and more every year. I come from a country where it's much more popular to remind people that democracy is available at every income level, and this is something which you need to protect.

There are too many people coming out of school and heading into a life of nothing. They go straight on the dole or into crime.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.