Quotes About Society

Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.

Pop music has been the center of change, you know? And positive messages. I would love to get back to that place because I think we've lost it a little bit.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

Political culture has become popular culture.

The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.

There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.

All of us use crutches of popularity amongst friends, society, social media for self-importance. People go to any extent to feed their ego, even if that means to show someone down, self-destruction or to kill someone.

All language is a popularity contest.

This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country.

Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.

Athletes can definitely have an impact on society. And it's great that athletes can be a part of uniting the population.

Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population were propagandised into buying into a certain code of morals. I would be happy if we could emulate that in some way in America.

I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.

But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country.