Quotes About Society

There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.

We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the '60s.

I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.

True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.

There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

Many, many things are dangerous in our world, commercials and TV are dangerous, and so is the world of sitcoms. But nobody does anything about them because they're turning in alot of money.

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.