Quotes About Society

Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.

My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.

Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.

My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania.

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

Everyone is so addicted to their damn phone. It's sad to see the filmmaker's work diminished down to a computer screen.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

I always say the work is not a celebration as such, because that's sometimes just as weird and excluding and perverse.

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.