Quotes About Society

Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention.

In 'Dhanam,' I play a call girl, who has revolutionary ideas.

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

Part of my job is to be looked at and I do think we live in a world where you are judged on your looks. If you look at someone you previously liked and they look old and decrepit, I don't think it's that pleasant.

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

The world today doesn't please me.

People feel like they have to hide their true colors to please the people around them.

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

The 'economy' became a god such as never before, and a happy, successful society was one that could please this god - sometimes by sacrificing beautiful things - to keep the deity from getting angry and harming the people by withdrawing favours.

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

I do not want our society to be one where the government feels free to check your private phone records anytime it pleases.

Women telling men to step out of roles so they can step into them isn't going to endear people to feminism. Neither is telling women they are betraying feminism by enjoying the pleasures of being a traditional housewife.

The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

There have been plenty of little changes down the years but what's never been changed is that the fact that marriage is between a man and a woman.

As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.

Farmer's plight and dismal condition of common man in Punjab forced me to join politics.

Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.

There are a lot of lonely people on the planet that have a lot of money in their pocket and no place to go on a Friday night.

If you only vote with your back pocket in mind or your own best interest in mind, I believe, it is my belief that's a terrible, terrible way of thinking.

There are pockets of liberal, affluent America where parents don't want their kids vaccinated.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.