Quotes About Society

We should be extremely cautious about continuing to increase sentences as a routine response to concerns over crime.

Catalan society is divided. There's one bloc - which isn't a majority - that backs pro-independence parties. But there's also a bloc that doesn't, which favours the current state, the statute of autonomy, and either increased decentralisation or even increased recentralisation.

You can tax the rich to pay for current spending. You can even tax them very heavily. But when the rich look forward for decades and see nothing but increasing taxes, debts, and government control of their businesses and assets - they will leave.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

We lack an educated, resilient citizenry capable of navigating the increasing complexities of daily life.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

Increasingly, Americans don't own America.

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

The relationship between citizens and government is increasingly mediated through the Internet.

The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.

There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.

It seems to me that we are living in an increasingly unfree society.

Broken Britain isn't just about our indebted economy, it's also about our broken society and broken politics too.

We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told.

India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all.

I personally think the male and female roles have changed dramatically in the past few decades. Men are no longer the breadwinners. Financial independence for a woman is a huge thing.

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

We can't deny the existence of caste in India. We have to live with it.

When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.