Quotes About Society

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.

If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that.

We have to change public perception of ex-convicts. Most Canadians don't realize that when you come out of prison, you're a complete pariah. You can't get a car loan or money from a bank to start a business. So most end up back in prison within 24 months. It's just so wrong. We need to fix this problem.

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

I spent my life behind bars, and what people don't know is getting out of prison is really nerve-racking - you're not used to society; you're not used to the world going by so fast - so to step on that lot was quite overwhelming.

Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

We are all prisoners of the ideas of the times we live in.

I have exercises that lead participants to discover for themselves that their deepest fulfillment comes when what they're doing is of benefit to larger society in some way. This really knocks some for a loop - especially those schooled in the 'take no prisoners' approach.

I understand the importance which the Palestinian society attributes to the issue of prisoners.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

There's this idea of America that some people have to win and some have to lose, so certain things are in place to make this happen. Some people have to be the next legislators and political elites, and some have to fill the prisons and work in McDonald's. That's how America works. It's a machine which needs people up top and people down low.

It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on which they prey. It makes life safer for the law-abiding and on the whole prisons are pretty good at containing those who have been committed to them.

Journalism itself is by no means pristine clean; it has as many corrupt elements as other sections of society.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.