Quotes About Society

There's just so much girl-on-girl hate. It happens to start in high school, and then it builds and gets bigger and bigger, and it seems like for some reason there's this mentality that if another girl does well, she's taking my spot.

Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

We need to use all the resources at our disposal in order to prosper. We need more employment, and we need employment to be spread more fairly across society.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.

We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.

Dowry is still pervasive and spreading like cancer in the society. Apart from legal sanctions, there should be more social awareness on the issue so that people start to practice what they preach.

The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.

I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

All kinds of ways of expression are spreading out all over the place, information is overflowing, and it's harder and harder to be excited about anything.

Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.

I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walking down Madison Avenue, and it was spring, and people were smartly dressed, and it was so strange because there was no sense that we were at war. It was something to grapple with.

The Arab world was ripe with hope during the spring of 2011. Journalists, academics, and the general population were brimming with expectations of a bright and free Arab society within their respective countries.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.

It's heartbreaking to think that the joy of building a family is being dimmed by the economic squeeze young people are feeling.

Be it a cop, or an IAS officer or even a goonda, the audience wants to see me as a person who discusses social issues, asks questions that they have and squeeze out answers from those concerned.

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.

Of course I would recommend marriage to others. Times are changing, even in the past people had kids without getting married but marriage gives stability to your family and people around you. It's a working institution and it can fail in certain situations.

I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.