Quotes About Society

We think the government is running the country, but it is just a policymaker. Unknowingly, people are inviting the government to run their lives. The only business of the government is to come up with the right policies.

When I think about some of the policies that we make in this country, the policies are so self-driven.

I think it's not just a matter of building more houses, more flats. We need to have the right policies. I want people to be able to own their flats.

I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working.

Race is something that's always haunted American policing.

When monetary policy destroys the currency, it always destroys the middle class.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

My family is just like most other families - we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.

People are not as nice as they used to be. There used to be a time when we conversed. You don't get a lot of real responses now. They used to be more polite and well-mannered people, generally. It's minimal now.

One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

There's nothing more political than fantasy.

Architecture is always political.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

I believe that cinema is not only an artistic industry, but there is also a political activity.