Quotes About Society

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

Business cannot prosper in societies that fail.

There is only one social responsibility of business

There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business.

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

I preume there are far too many abortions performed in this country. And I also believe that at the end of the day, as much as I might disapprove, none of them are really any of my business.

Trade is a social act.

Politics is a people business. I like people.

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.

Creativity is a unique characteristics that a person can posses from his or her own knowledge when he or she is creating changes in society that can benefit a vast amount of people.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

When the business people get done with the arts, all that's left will be entertainment.

In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.

Government should protect people and regulate corporations, not protect corporations and regulate people.

There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can't help break now and then on TV

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.