Quotes About Society

If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.

The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.