Quotes About Society

America's professional and managerial elites have little interest in the broad middle class of our society and have weak ties to nation and place.

Currently and for some time now, the course of urban growth and development in the United States has been hostile to an informal public life;

We have become a suburban nation—the only one in the world.

Spurred by necessity, women of the Revolution helped keep a torn society from falling apart. A single entry from the diary of Temperance Smith, the parson's wife from Connecticut, reveals how religion, politics, work, and family, thoroughly interwoven, enabled women to carry on: On

By and large, these were not wealthy people. Whig leaders, on the other hand, came primarily from the upper crust of local society.

The notion that women were "displaying a distinctive form of patriotism" by "shaming" their men into battle oversimplifies the female experience of the Revolutionary War. Women did become more political, by necessity if not by choice—but this does not mean that the political goals of the state superceded personal commitments to family and natural instincts for survival.

Our society has a tendency to ignore or diminish the value of the infirm and the frail elderly. Their suffering and physical debilitation are reminders of our own mortality and the last act that awaits us all. But as the lives of Blessed Mother Teresa and Saint Pope John Paul II teach us, the end can be the most efficacious part of a life.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

We'll elect any bumbling fool, any champion of mediocrity to the highest office in the land as long as they have God as their running mate.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.

I'm not one of those girls that's like, 'I have to be married by the time I'm 35 and I have to have six babies when I'm 38.' No, I'm just fine it's all good.

People are marked down for their age - once you get past 30, people look at you a bit funny. When you get to 35, the questions are all, 'When are you going to stop?' Calm down!

We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house!

Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.

The point is always made that capitalism is efficient, people say 'You might not like it, but it works.' But Britain is not efficient.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.

India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

Things do go wrong. Not everyone benefits from the capitalist dream.

There's a lot of individual credit and blame in a capitalist society.

I personally think that women should have the choice to show as much skin as they're comfortable with, and it shouldn't negatively impact their careers.