Quotes About Society

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

Society makes victims feel that they put themselves in a compromising position and therefore share in the responsibility of being violated.

Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society - bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

This endless violence in the U.K. has to stop.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.