Quotes About Society

To create a society that is supportive of child-rearing parents is a role of the government, and we are also working to realize a society where women can shine.

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

Depriving immigrant families of health care, healthy food, insurance, and antipoverty supports does not just hurt them. In the long term, it hurts everyone.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.

I suppose that's why we watch dramas: to see the stuff that in real life you'd end up in prison for.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

We are supposed to all be equal before the law, but we have a separate and distinct ruling class, and that is wrong.

The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.

I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day?

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

As women, we're supposed to bear the burden of raising our families and then also financially providing for them as well, and it's difficult when you're already starting off making less than the average.

Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, 'You're disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.' But women, we're supposed to be like, 'He messed up. He made a mistake.'

We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved.

I've met very lonely people who have 10,000 friends on Facebook. And it's just not real. We've set up this artificial society in cyberspace. And that's supposed to be a community, like a real community. It's supposed to be where people go to get solace or friendship or have fun.

As women, we're always supposed to be catty, or too cute to dance. And it sucks.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.