Quotes About Society

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

We've always had a sadistic obsession with technology.

I firmly believe that a big part of the obsession with women's thinness comes from the same place as male power fantasies.

The big problem in our society is the obsession with maximisation.

It's a lucky kink for comedy writers that particular English obsession and interest with class and social difference. It maybe is not good for society but it's good for the comic writer.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

Things are not going to change until Indian women, and their parents, stop being afraid of what society will say. This is the single biggest obstacle. The fear of what people will say and how this will shame their parents means that women are paralysed.

In reality it's pretty obvious that all the citizens of Israel have total civil equality.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

There is no reason why cricket shouldn't be the number one alternative to football. And at a time when there are obvious divisions in society, cricket has a great role to play in bringing people together from all sorts of diverse backgrounds and faiths.

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

Tahiti is now completely occupied by materialistic ideas and I think it is wrong.

No, but why is Croft that way? Oh there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Texan. It is because he has renounced God. He is that way because he was born that way, or because the Devil has claimed him for one of his own, or because the only woman he ever loved was untrue to him.

rip the prisons open put the convicts on television

A cop is a human creature born stupid and raised in stupidity.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

Capital punishment is symbolic of society's determination to enforce all of its laws. If we don't enforce the severest of our laws, the criminal mind might conclude (punishments of) other laws won't be imposed against them

He was ready to argue there was no rational way you could justify the death penalty, except to admit it was absolute revenge. If that, he would say, was the foundation of the criminal justice system, then we had a pretty sick system.

A utopia I would join in a minute is a society which could be communist or capitalist, anything, except that no woman member of it ever underwent sex unless she was hot. Pretending to be hot bears a distinct resemblance to self-rape, but it's a rape accompanied by boredom instead of fear.

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.