Quotes About Society

The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.

We need to aim to get rid of food banks altogether, and replace charitable intervention with a fairer, more equal society.

I think it's safe to say people are going to be interested in Kim Kardashian's love choices for the next 30 years. But they can take a minute to think about the new robotic arm that could replace the one they lost to cancer. Then they can keep thinking about Kim Kardashian.

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

Even as a kid I remember seeing 'Minority Report' and just crying my eyes out. It was horrible what was happening to her. That was my mum!

All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.

When country music is doing its job, it reports on the good, bad and indifferent of our human condition.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.

I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

Politically, the ultraorthodox represent a small portion of the Israeli society.

You cannot collectively, as a society, decide that you are only going to represent one part of a minority. It's like saying you've represented black people on television because you aired an episode of the 'Cosbys.'

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.

To rightly recognize that men and women are equal under the law is perfectly removed from the fact that men and women are distinguishable beings that have been shaped by sex-specific evolutionary challenges. Accordingly, there is no reason to assume or expect that there should be equal representation of the two sexes across all contexts.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and that they have hopes and dreams is taken away from people of color in their representation.

I don't think that's a fair representation of life, that you have to go to college and do well to get anywhere.

I would definitely love to see a queer rom-com because representation matters. It does so much to help normalize things in the mind of society.

Do we hate our women? I don't think so. In fact, Pakistan has more women representation in government than the U.S., and we have twice elected a female head of state.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.