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Quotes About Society

Like most women, my weight goes up and down.
~ Sandi Toksvig
Baidu's AI is incredibly strong, and the team is stacked up and down with talent; I am confident AI at Baidu will continue to flourish. After Baidu, I am excited to continue working toward the AI transformation of our society and the use of AI to make life better for everyone.
~ Andrew Ng
I've always been very honest about the fact my weight goes up and down, but I think that's the same for a lot of people.
~ Miquita Oliver
Parents should be told that if they invest in the education and upbringing of a girl child, she will also make contributions for the family and society.
~ Sharmila Tagore
I expect nothing from the government but I expect everything from people. There is a need to update ourselves, our values and lifestyle.
~ Sonam Wangchuk
We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
~ Bhagat Singh
2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no standstill in a world filled with so many people, scrambling for so much.
~ Roxane Gay
The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.
~ Pratibha Patil
The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.
~ Bill Kristol
I have a problem with superheroes in general because, politically, superheroes are cops. Superheroes work with the government to uphold the law. And who do the laws work for?
~ Boots Riley
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
~ Peter Diamandis
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
~ Warren Buffett
I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.
~ Miriam Margolyes
The new upper class devotes incredible amounts of effort to raising their kids but that also includes incredible amounts of effort in getting their kids into the right preschool in some elite communities which I think is going a little bit too far.
~ Charles Murray
Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
~ Sun Ra
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.
~ Sloan Wilson
The conservatory professors thought everything should sound like French and German symphonies. But to my ear, bouzouki songs, which tell the sufferings and heartaches of ordinary people, offered a way to make classical music available not just to the upper classes.
~ Mikis Theodorakis
Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
~ Francesca Annis
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
~ Joseph Epstein
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
~ Ed Miliband
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.
~ Germaine Greer
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.
~ David Amram