Quotes About Society

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.

We won't get economic growth if we don't look after our mothers and the potential of the next generation. They need to be prioritised.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

I've experienced colorism in that way: where if you're lighter, then you'll potentially be accepted into society better than if you were darker-skinned.

I don't want the United States to be Athens on the Potomac.

'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

We have this obsession with celebrity, where people can go on shows and makes millions of pounds from being completely talentless - Jade Goody, all that type of people - and it really gets to me. I'm not interested, I'm a musician. It's not about being famous and being a celeb.

If I want to shave my head tomorrow and gain 50 pounds, or grow my hair long and lose 50 pounds, I have the freedom to do that. People will get used to it.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

I don't know about you, but I feel like my day begins by blinking my eyes open, grabbing my phone, and just pouring poison directly into my cerebellum.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.

Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.