Quotes About Society

Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

All I know is that Conservatives aren't interested in helping anybody but themselves get richer.

I saw the things that my sister went through - she's dark skinned - with boys not considering her attractive in her youth and the pain that it caused her.

Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty.

Segregation has never been a shadowy, impossible-to-pin-down conspiracy. It's been an American way of life.

I think that, in America, even though race is a social construct, I mean, we say this in theory, but I think a lot of people don't believe that it really is. And so it's still a very racialized society.

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

The mainstream consumed our culture.

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

London can be a platform to look at what living in contemporary Britain is all about.

I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

The future is our greatest adversary. We are a very backward-looking society, and as such, we are continually blindsided by the future.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.

Often men dont even realise theyre sad. Boys are brought up to unconsciously feel they would be breaking their man contract if they were to cry too much.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.