Quotes About Society

Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

I met older actresses who never married, never had children. That's not for me.

There has been some snobbishness, particularly among the much older generation. There's class and then there's the racial thing.

The people love to see happy young people and I think the older generation are a bit boring for most people.

I don't want to see older people on T.V. I want to see young, pretty people on T.V.

As a woman getting older people start to feel insecure about the way they look.

I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.

Our youth-oriented society does not have a clearly defined place for the older woman.

We equate beauty for women with youth, and that's sad. It's a shame it's so hard for so many of us to appreciate the beauty of an older woman and to accept it in ourselves.

In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

Sometimes, I wonder where we older women fit into the social scheme of things once nest-building has lost its charm.

Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

That conversation about 'roles for women,' generally - 'roles for older women.' It's like, let's please not dig into that one any more, you know?

The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.

It may be a masculine attitude to take lovers, but it's definitely prevalent. I'm certainly not the oldest person doing it - not that I'm doing it right now, but when I was.

When I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a sense that history was on a straight path toward democracy everywhere. Well, that's not true. It was also not true that there's a single era of oligarchy, because we showed we could do something about it.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.

I know one day I'll be considered too old.

The financial elite do not need special laws for themselves. This is one nation and there is one criminal law.