Quotes About Society

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

You look like a normal person, if you can find a normal person who wants to look like that.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.

America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.

The world has entered a new era, evolving from an industrial into a knowledge-based society, and into a society that wants to live in harmony with nature.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she's like, 'I just want to be a mom.