Quotes About Society

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.

Europe's demography is developing towards a smaller working population in an ageing society.

My body is not meant to small. I think even when I was at my fittest at 13 and 14 years old when I was dancing all the time and I was really active and constantly doing things, I was no smaller than an 8 and I was working my butt off for that.

I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.

I've been told I'd get so much more work if I was smaller, but going out for dinner and drinks with my friend is more important to me than size.

I definitely feel the pressure to lose weight and be smaller than I am.

People often say that they want to move away to smaller cities for a better lifestyle and peace, but as a single girl, you need your society, your neighbour, and even passersby to give you some respect.

You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it.

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

You have to carry yourself with respect, care about your reputation. And unfortunately, as a woman, you have to be smarter and better and you have no room for mistakes or error.

In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when collaboration was sparse.

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

What we need to do is open our eyes, smell the coffee and just understand what the society has become. Today, I can discuss many things with my 15-year-old son which I could not talk about with my father.

I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.

I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.

There's a different expectation, not just on mothers but on women. We're expected to do it all, to have it all, and look good through the process and have a smile on our face, and that's not always the case.

Girls are almost always socialized to be perfect: 'Smile, do well in school, don't take too many risks.'

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.