Quotes About Society

Black and white is so familiar. It's how we see the printed word in books, so it's kind of neutral in a way. Yet it's ironic that black and white is so charged socially, what with its association with race.

Our relationship to the computer is much like our relationship to the car: rich, complex, socially messy.

I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has also led to extraordinary cultural contributions that I'm very proud of, but it's not a real category and our society is damaged by insisting on it.

Societal good comes first for me.

We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration.

There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that's what I'm passionate about as a mother.

Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.

I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.

The marketing business has been just about promoting things, but we don't believe that anymore. There has to be a societal component, too.

An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.

Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?

We have a lot of societal problems that we have to fix in the 1990s.

Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.

The lack of societal and institutional safeguards provides fertile ground for populist movements fueled by fear.

I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

Pen names have always fascinated me, in part because I understand the professional and economic and even societal reasons to do so.

Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political significance.

It's a lovely feeling, just working away at the desk, putting words down, building words up... I think you have to be aware that what you're doing is not just a private act, it's a societal thing.

Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.

Paid leave is a not just a mother and child issue, it's a societal issue we have.

I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really looking at race, population, gender, and how we psychologically function in a way that affects our societal outcomes around those issues.

There are certain societal laws that are just accepted, things that are arbitrary. I think the fun thing about psychotics is that they question that. It can be very freeing... like, my ego or my individuality trumps society's law.

Just as a doctor is important for saving lives, every IAS officer is important for societal development; he's like a messenger sent by God to serve the public.

Multicultural societies are multi-conflict societies.