Quotes About Society

We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble.

When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.

Privacy is not really a concept in Japan.

It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

I don't believe in private education.

I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

We know that racism and white privilege are both very much alive today.

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

Being a woman means that my male privilege seeped out of my body.

Normalising the term 'white privilege' does not eliminate racism, it reinforces the notion that everyone and everything around ethnic minorities is racist and makes the majority white population more conscious about their race and exacerbates feelings of difference, creating a less cohesive society.

Femininity in and of itself - and the feminine - can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

The privileged elites are part of the globalization moment that we live in.

We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.

Art is the job of the privileged.

Here in the U.K., our government is committed to building a society that works for everyone - not just a privileged few. We must do exactly the same abroad.

Notoriety is such a prized thing. Society suddenly wants your opinion on things - everyone from your mom to an editor at The New York Times.

I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

On a very, very basic level, I'm definitely pro market because with the market comes the idea of the individual and the idea of specialisation, and I personally like being an individual and choosing my interactions. I don't see culture moving away from that, like back to a farming society. You couldn't do that with the amount of people we have.

I don't do much political stuff because our nation is so divided, we can't say one thing without the other side automatically assumes that you are pro the other side.

Probation is a less-well-known branch of our justice system, compared with, say, police and prisons, but that doesn't make it any less important. Hundreds of thousands of offenders each year are rehabilitated back into society by probation, which is crucial for the public's safety.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.