Quotes About Society

Since the 70s and the 80s you see the rise of neoliberalism. The central dogma of neoliberalism was that most people are selfish. So, we started designing our institutions around that idea, our schools, our workplaces, our democracies. The government became less and less important.

We don't want to govern the country without democratic institutions.

I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or corporations or otherwise.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

We don't know if our economy, our society, could support the social and the human and the economic cost of an insurgency.

I think there's always the whole expectation that men can age and look fine, and girls have to be all conscious. But guys can also keep their skin intact.

I want to stop the influx of new immigrants. This way, we can give those who are already here the opportunity to fully integrate into our society.

If migrants from other cultures arrive too fast and in numbers too great for society to absorb and integrate them, they begin to impose those cultures on the host country.

I'm the only one who is saying, 'Let's take fewer immigrants.' We want people to integrate, we don't want ghettos in Canada.

There can't be real peace without improving the integration of Arab society and making it part of the political game.

I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of futurism that envisions augmenting human ability and intellect rather than creating some artificial machine intelligence that displaces us.

We need more intellect and humor back on television, instead of the lowest common denominator of comedy - like the fart joke!

I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

Long-term career aspirations encompass emotional and intellectual impact of work on society.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.

I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the U.K. prefers its intellectualism to be entertaining.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

I want Britain to be that kind of opportunity society where the Government is your friend, working with you, enabling rather than holding you back, intentionally or not.

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

Design and branding are inextricably linked to the way in which society, culture, the environment, and business interact.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

Society is causing us to talk less and interact more digitally. So, I'd be remiss if I didn't believe that businesses will have to follow that same path.