Quotes About Society

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

I think we will be safer when we can concentrate law enforcement and criminal justice resources and energies on those individuals who truly need, for the safety of society... to be incarcerated.

The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society.

Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.

Basically, I think society functions thanks to how certain key industries work - government, finance, healthcare, education, energy. Pretty much all of these have a huge impact on everything else.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

A lot of my book, 'The Price of Inequality,' is about why there has been an increase in rent-seeking.

'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better.

Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad.

Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

All of my life and particularly throughout of my public career, I have been talking about the feminization of poverty. And one of the manifestations of the feminization of poverty is the issue of pay inequality in our society.

We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester.