Quotes About Society

The self-love and self-trust our culture proffers always turns the heart away from God.

The lesson was clear and I learned it well: blind acquiescence was necessary to gain approval; being yourself only earned condemnation.

Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.

Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing.

Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.

People's attention spans don't run too long these days.

People who lived in the 1920s and '30s and '40s were not so different from us. In some ways, they were probably better citizens than we are. They had longer attention spans, for example. Educated people tended to read a bit more than we did.

Our attention spans have become shorter because there are more and more claims upon them - more information, more complexity; more stories, more stuff; more.

We keep discussing nuclear power and other issues, but we should spare a thought to the basic needs of our women.

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that.

I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.

Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'

I'm not speaking in favor of killing innovation. I'm speaking in favor of centrist use of the market, which involves necessarily a considerable degree of regulation. Markets by themselves will get themselves inevitably into inequality and into their own destruction. It will happen again and again.

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.

Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?

Music that speaks of politics is less listened to than the music of partying, but it's still there.

In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

When a woman speaks to a man about the love she feels for another man, she is not liked.