Quotes About Society

Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.

The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.

We're all severely addicted to our phones... it's not glamorous or always harrowing even, it's just damaging.

Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign.

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society.

Phones would not be better if they could be cooler looking, if they could weight less, or if they could have more battery. Phones would be better if we didn't have to carry them around.

It's not fair that people save and work and pay for phones from whatever funds they have, and other people get them for free.

Look around you in any restaurant, and you will see couples, families, and friends glued to their phones.

I am not anti-Internet, and I don't think smart phones are a social ill.

I'm so tired of cell phones.

I think, as people, we're isolating ourselves. We're talking to each other through our phones, arguing... those divisions freak me out.

We're going to have a generation of kids whose norm will be people just being addicted to their phones. And that's what scares me. The impact on my kids, I think about that daily. Like, what is this doing to me and my family?

I don't think most people decide to become an actor because they want to be followed around all the time... I see it when I'm with my brothers, and I don't get it. I don't understand why someone wants to take a photo of us getting out of a car or on the beach. I think that's really weird.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

Its so easy to feel bombarded by photos of people at the gym, and people telling you that you need a gym membership. You dont have to spend anything.

I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.

It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.