Quotes About Society

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

All societies are historical.

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.

Because the traditional mode of dress for Muslim women is so distinct - the headcovering, which is not there for guys - women carry a greater burden of representation than Muslim men do in non-Muslim societies.

We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.

Who I am really doesn't matter at all. If I'm the worst person in the world, you can hate me and move on. What really matters here are the issues. What really matters here is the kind of government we want, the kind of Internet we want, the kind of relationship between people and societies.

My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments.

Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.

Over the ages, some societies have accorded far less value and respect to singles than to married individuals.

I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in.

Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.

Parallel societies are exactly that: They exist side by side and rarely meet.

When we talk about technology, often, we talk about the fact that it's going to be cool; it's going to do all these things for us. But at the same time, technology will deeply change our societies.