Quotes About Society

It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.

This is America, man. To not have football would be un-American. It's part of our society, like soccer in Brazil.

There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

With our Paleolithic instincts, we're simply unable to resist technology's gifts. But this doesn't just compromise our privacy. It also compromises our ability to take collective action.

I come from a fragmented society. A country proud to serve as a bridge between Europe and Asia yet unable to bridge its own differences.

Suppose the pay gap between men and women were magically eliminated. If that happened, simple arithmetic suggests that half of women would be unable to find what they regard as a suitable mate.

While there have been news reports of recent college graduates living with their parents because they have been unable to find a job paying a salary sufficient to move out, their near and long-term career prospects remain far brighter than for those without a college degree.

Schools unable to keep their lights on and their doors open for the full working week is just the latest bleak instalment of a long-running show. The age of austerity returns for its ninth miserable year; always in the background, the common denominator in everything from the Brexit vote to knife crime.

Every sector of society looks at digital analytics in a productive way. Limiting my ability to use them is just unacceptable. And by the way, Congress conducts polls using traditional methods. No one is using social media analytics as a substitute for that.

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.

I'm used to being told by society that I must regulate my body to fit the norm. I'm used to the fact that images of unaltered women are seen as unacceptable.

How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.

If it's unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it's totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry.

There are so many hard-wired ideas we've grown up with that we're now realizing are unacceptable.

It's unacceptable when a parent's hard work isn't enough to pay the bills or go to a doctor.

Why don't women say what they want, why wait to be asked? Do women intuit that it is unacceptable to appear ambitious?

The most daunting challenges of our times, from climate change to the ageing population, demand an entrepreneurial state unafraid to take a gamble.

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.