Quotes About Society

It's great for people to give out of the kindness of their hearts, but because we're in a consumerist society, it's also great to have the opportunity to give and get.

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

I love my sons, I love my husband, and I love my country. But in kingdoms of men, there are few - if any - choices for women. Or the choices are such that there is no greater pain than having to choose.

In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political.

Everybody in Italy cooks. They have a better knowledge of the kitchen - that's the place around which the whole of Italian society revolves.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Whether it is kids carrying knives because they are in gangs or kids carrying knives because they are afraid of gangs, it is the gang culture that underpins the problem.

Part of the reason young people are getting involved with gangs, leading to the use of guns and knives, is not the lack of stop and search but the individualistic, consumerist society we live in.

I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

American culture is so open compared to Korean culture, which is really conservative.

I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society and make a commentary. They're not in a la la land.

We have stigmatised sleep with the label of laziness.

I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.

I am a criminal. Coming to terms with this aspect of my identity has helped me to see more clearly - with blinders off - the ways in which I have been encouraged not to feel any connection to 'them,' those labeled criminals. I see now that 'they' are me, and I am them.

It's not crime that makes us more punitive in the United States. It's the way we respond to crime and how we view those people who have been labeled criminals.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

I think we labor economists like to think of ourselves as being closer to the people.