Quotes About Society

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity."

We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.

By 1960 work will be limited to three hours a day.

I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

You have to look at the effects of something like 'Little Britain,' of how the stereotypes it pushes has impacted society and the way people interact with each other.

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.

Playing jazz in restaurants is too stereotypical.