Quotes About Society

When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

I fell in love with Norman Mailer's 'Of a Fire on the Moon', a description of the 1969 moon landing and the society that had produced NASA - and was inspired by him to begin a kind of anthropology of modern life.

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it's produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends.

It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.

Rewarding law breakers produces more law breakers.

Cape Verde produces good people.

Huge institutions producing costly services dominate the horizons of our inventiveness.

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.

Does 'Jersey Shore' make me sad for humanity that this is what's passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if that's what millions of people want to watch, I can't fault someone for producing it.

Producing more reams of detailed policies that have marginal and limited effects on our society is futile.

I identify myself with the male gaze, I grew up with the male gaze, I've been excited by the male gaze. I'm a product of that culture.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

I was one of those kids who liked a lot of attention. I was always the kid in class who'd be telling jokes and getting in trouble. Theater was a natural way for me to channel that and also become a productive member of society.

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.