Quotes About Society

Being gay is no longer a taboo subject in Germany.

It's not enough to tackle just the symptoms of poverty. You have to tackle the causes of poverty.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.

Creating a more equal society means tackling the inequalities that emerge before children even start school.

I hate to say it - it breaks my heart - but we're a tacky, money-obsessed culture.

Cambridge Analytica's tactics contributed to a world where people kind of hate each other, and don't want to talk to each other, don't want to hear each other, don't want to speak to each other.

The tactics we were able to use in the 1960s, 1970s - let's have a campaign, mobilize everybody and, therefore, social pressure - stop littering, or stop spitting, or be courteous to one another: I am not sure that kind of approach will work anymore.

I don't think there are any negative roles anymore. I think we can aptly put such characters under 'anti-hero' tag.

For some reason, our culture is one that preaches that furthering your education is something that is always worth the price tag, and the truth is, that simply isn't the case.

There's an expression in Persian, 'to play with the lion's tail.' I wasn't what Iranian society wanted me to be - a good girl. I played with the lion's tail.

My generation was the tail end of the Cold War.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

The original communitarianism of Chinese Confucian society has degenerated into nepotism, a system of family linkages, and corruption, on the mainland. And remnants of the evils of the original system are still found in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even Singapore.

Singapore is better than Hong Kong; Hong Kong is better than Taiwan; Taiwan is better than the mainland. I'm speaking in terms of culture.

Everybody told me that Taiwan is a very polite society and that people don't like gossip and scandals here. But they just pretend they don't like it. We have, by far, the biggest newspaper in Taiwan. They just buy it to read it at home.

I don't like people who take drugs... customs men for example.

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.

Women should do kitchen work and take care of babies.

It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.