Quotes About Society

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.

The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work.

You can't create a work without being aware that it will change dependent upon the context or the society where it is developed or consumed.

I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?

Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

We come from the future, essentially, because we have all these ideas about gender equality, sexual freedom, and these are not shared by the working class, the peasantry among whom we work.

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.

This new (technology) that is so transforming our world and economy is not going to work unless it works for everyone.

Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.