Quotes About Society

You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

I will probably go to jail, but do you know what? There's a lot of good people who go to jail.

With bad girls, you can't go as many places as you can with a good girl. But, it is fun to play the bad girl because you always get the better wardrobe!

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.

It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.