Quotes About Society

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive.

There's no question there's enough information available to all of us in this society for darn near anything. The problem is the quality of the information, the presentation of it... You shouldn't have to be a lawyer.

The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.

To me, sex is sex and I don't think it is or should be a problem. Maybe my presenting it that way will unscrew up a few heads out there, including my own.

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

People of all political persuasions - conservatives, moderates, and liberals alike - need to dedicate themselves once again to preserving the moral foundation of our society.

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

Society leaders have urged me to seek the presidency.

A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book.

There are basic lines of human decency, norms to which society generally agrees and to which we adhere, and we continue to see the Trump presidency eroding these lines.

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

Since President Trump has assumed office, I have learned a great deal about the problems on our borders.