Quotes About Society

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society. No civil, liberal government can succeed, even after new elections, if the Islamists are forced to work underground as a foe and the country remains divided.

On 'Underground,' we had used contemporary music to pull you into the present and not just look at it as a portrait on the wall and in the past.

We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

If someone thinks that education, health, infrastructure all are different sectors and issues and they ought to be fought independently, then they are mistaken. There is an underlying pattern in the process. And that is bad governance.

There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.

Everything I do has an underlying political question.

Tightening up border and immigration controls go nowhere in addressing the underlying causes of terrorism in our society and in our world.

Many of the underlying factors in poor mental health are societal.

If a woman is successful, then she's deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we're all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn't seem to me to have changed an iota.

Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.

Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.

Women compete, compare, undermine, and undercut one another - at least, that is the prevailing notion of how we interact.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war.

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.

The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality.

From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence, to fighting marriage equality, the Kochs' tentacles infiltrate all parts of America's public debates.

I spent a fair amount of time in Communist Poland when I was young - my wife was from there - and I had the impression that boredom was one of the things that was undermining that whole society from the inside.

I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface. That is something that makes the writers forced to see what is underneath the surface, because it's always something underneath the surface, of course.

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

If people are all the same underneath, how has society changed so fast and so radically? Life now is completely different to how it was 32,000 years ago. It's changed like that of no other species has. What's made that difference?

People think if you're working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath.