Quotes About Society

In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

Children don't have anywhere to go except cinema halls, malls and restaurants. All three aren't ideal places for kids to grow up in.

To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.

I get angry about the way women are forced and bullied into what the male ideal is.

The constant pressure to be the perfect, ideal female - there's no such thing.

I am not into the mother sentiment, really. My heart is not into this ideal mother role; it does not work for me.

I'm not the ideal male. But when my daughter was born, I became more aware of the society she would grow in.

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

Democracy or politics done without values and ideals is dangerous for the country.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

In a world where ideas and ideals flow freely, we want what everybody else in an advanced society seems to have: a say in our future.

Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals.

When Coinbase was starting, we thought we were seeing the birth of something that was really important - what I would almost describe as the future fabric of society - the system for who we are - our identities, what we own, our assets.

There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.

If Trump actually wants to help those who have been left behind, he must go beyond the ideological battles of the past.