Quotes About Society

I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that you have to play a different game than men play, and you have to be a lot cleverer.

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct.

Sadly, I think that 'Children of Men' has only become an increasingly relevant and realistic portrait of where we are in the world.

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

A song about post-teenage angst like 'Mad World' seems to be permanently relevant.

Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.

For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.

One thing that N.W.A did, as Larry Flynt did before them, was to expand the boundaries of our reliance upon the good sense of the people to determine what's right and what isn't, what's obscene and what isn't, and what's immoral and what isn't.

People need permanent tax relief.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

Religions get lost as people do.

Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'

We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.

Religions based on the principle of service and a focus on the less fortunate help a society deal with want.

Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.