Quotes About Society

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.

The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.

There might just be a universal expectation to respect the dead, but my work is also born from another aspect of Thai society - that is, the overemphasis on familial bonds.

I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.

I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

That's what we do when we work in Silicon Valley tech startups: We think about who's going to benefit from this. That's almost the only thing we think about.

The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

Men must work, and women must weep.

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.