Quotes About Society

I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.

The term 'working mother' is redundant.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother "worked" at anything besides raising her children.

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

History is the collective consciousness of the then intellectuals and not just some numbers, time and events.