Quotes About Society

I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.

'Redistributing the wealth' - that phrase gets used so much that you almost get numb to it.

The phrase 'working mum' makes me nervous.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is always changing. But does it matter if organisations independent enough and rich enough to employ journalists to do their job disappear? Yes, that matters hugely; it affects the whole of life and society.

Physically robust infrastructure is not enough if it fails to foster a healthy community; ultimately, all infrastructure is social.

That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.

Everyone gives 'Picket Fences' credit for being so willing to delve into issues that now would be no big deal. But it was then. It was ahead of its time.

I think everyone envisions me sitting at Alexandre's all day, picking out beautiful clothes from passing couturiers.

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

I think 'American Pie' is great.

I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'

There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

I didn't eat entire pies or pig out on junk... I gave life and no one can or should make a woman feel bad about her body when she just had a baby.

People who live inside garbage piles - that should not be happening.

In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong.

Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation.