Quotes About Society

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

There are beautiful songs people write about love and dancing. But it's political issues that should be addressed.

Although everything has a political connotation today, 'Mulk' is a social film, to be honest. It is not about any political leader, party or ideology.

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

Part of what's great about America, and Canada as well, is that we can talk about our political leaders in public.

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.

The Catalan institutions and political parties have to be consistent, because they have the democratic legitimacy of the ballot box and they can't pass certain responsibilities on to civil society.

Most people enjoy other people. Most people are human beings first. And affiliated with political parties second.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.

I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.

Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.

I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?

We live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise.

We have been indoctrinated to see the world through a politically correct lens.

I think we go overboard with a lot of those politically correct no-no's.