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Quotes About Society

I love the way this sport has evolved and impacted every segment of society. Now you have cross training and weight training in every sport and from middle school kids to senior citizens.
~ Lee Haney
Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.
~ Michael Leunig
I came from a middle-class family in Mexico, from a household full of women, in a country that is very machista.
~ Thalia
I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.
~ Jami Attenberg
Mike Cernovich is not everything that's wrong with society, but he is definitely the low hanging fruit of what's wrong with society.
~ Sam Seder
Our lives are a series of lowered expectations year after year. We got pounded by everything around us. Just like our parents and their parents. We are products of our social and economic milieu.
~ Dan Pena
What I do not like is militant secularism, whereby anything is acceptable as long as it's not Christian.
~ Ann Widdecombe
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
~ Charles de Gaulle
The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.
~ John Oliver
With the all-volunteer military, we, as a society, have become disconnected from our armed forces. And our military, like almost everything else in our country, has been outsourced.
~ James Carville
I think we as a society, a global community, we as governments, need to figure out ways to combat ISIS, not just as a military force but as an idea.
~ Matthew Heineman
Evading military service has a long history in American life.
~ John Gregory Dunne
I don't know what happened to the millennials. I think too much coddling is not a good thing.
~ John Layfield
Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.
~ Billy Higgins
Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
~ Carl Lewis
Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s.
~ Robert Dallek
We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.
~ Serj Tankian
The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.
~ Patch Adams
Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?
~ Carter Glass
A mind cannot be independent of culture.
~ Lev Vygotsky
We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics - not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn't.
~ Stephen Colbert
Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
~ William Glasser
The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
~ Ralph Steadman
Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.
~ Smriti Irani