Quotes About Society

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.

Unless we can join forces and recognize each other's humanity, how can we do business together, let alone make progress on the increasingly complex and difficult problems in society?

I think the ideology of the Congress is closest to mine. Congress is a party where I should be. I have joined politics to bring change in society. The Congress gave me a chance with the Aadhaar project. It's a party that will allow me to bring change.

I used to be like a normal IIT student to be very honest. Then I joined the dramatics society there in IIT Kharagpur.

Sometimes I think that the public's lack of criticism of the rich - and how they seek their pleasure - might derive from the fact that Americans still believe they will one day be joining their number.

I am not too interested in leaving the street people and joining the Establishment. I prefer street folks.

I wanted to work for society, so instead of joining politics I joined an NGO.

I think it is childish for men to joke about women's clothes, to make fun of our hats, to complain over the cost of a good fur coat.

I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

If people get their feelings hurt from jokes, then they are too delicate to be in society.

What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

W]hen any of the four pillars of government are mainly shaken or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather.

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

So when any of the four pillars of government, are mainly shaken, or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather.

When the middle class constitutes only 20–30 percent of the population, it may side with antidemocratic forces because it fears the intentions of the large mass of poor people below it and the populist policies they may pursue.

I THE IDEA OF TRUST The Improbable Power of Culture in the Making of Economic Society

While classical liberalism sought to protect the autonomy of equal individuals, the new ideology of multiculturalism promoted equal respect for cultures, even if those cultures abridged the autonomy of the individuals who participated in them.