Quotes About Society

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society.

I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look at why they're going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn't mean we've looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.

The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.'

We spend more on cows than the poor.

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?

The idea of a private life has been eroded in the sphere of politics.

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

When you get to a certain age in society, they want to dictate to you when you should pack it in and that you should mentally grab a cane, a box of Depends, Geritol, listen to the oldies, and not eat spicy food after 9 o'clock.

People have gone down this spiral of cancel culture and the idea that everything is offensive.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit.

Everybody has an idea of the kind of society they'd like to live in, and I would like to live in one where our senior politicians were spirited and original and possibly even good at what they do.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

The influence of a woman can be very great, especially now, in the present order or disorder of society, in which there is a kind of spiritual chill, a kind of moral fatigue, demanding reanimation. In order to produce this reanimation, the cooperation of woman is indispensable.