Quotes About Society

Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.

You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.

The bourgeoisie are the only people who want to help me. The enlightened bourgeoisie are the only ones who ever buy anything, look after it, and don't ask for a discount. They want to look after you.

Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.

What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.

There's a deeper conversation to be had on guns, and just because I happen to know where I fall into that conversation doesn't mean that I don't want to have that conversation.

Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.

The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you'll miss it.

The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

The females don't respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don't think, I'm gonna get this money on my own, they think, I'm gonna get money from this guy.

I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.

The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?