Quotes About Society

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

I think people are very focused on the economic issues. They want an economy that works for everybody.

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

The "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'

Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.