Quotes About Society

Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.

Many, many people - many parents feel that their decisions are, maybe not, great decisions. Every parent has that, you know, parent guilt of my goal is to produce wonderful, productive individuals and put them out into society.

When you increase productivity, economies become better - local economies become better, society becomes better.

In a sensibly organised society, if you improve productivity, there is room for everybody to benefit.

I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something.

No one was happy about me entering the entertainment industry because I belong to a Syed family. But I believe no profession is a bad profession, rather it's all about the mindset.

I'm deeply honored to lead Deloitte. I look forward to collaborating with all our people to continue to lead our profession in quality and innovation. Together, we make an impact that matters every day for our clients, the capital markets, communities, and society.

But the way I look at it is just about every profession in our society: There's some lasting effects. It's just the way that our society is set up. People have to work.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

I wanted to make the world of 'The Last Book in the Universe' as real as possible, so I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I decided the world would be a very different place, but people would be pretty much the same.

It's critically important for Europe to have a different way to think about the role of agriculture in society and the economy here.

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

From techies to film stars and kids, everyone is addicted to technology in different ways.

It's absolutely delightful to get dressed up for a lovely evening, but when it goes from being a fun thing to being a chore, and a chore that men don't have to do, then we need to think about it differently.

It's such a difficult thing for women, especially, to admit when we're not coping, because we're supposed to be all right with all the different roles we're born with and are piled on us later on.

In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.

I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems.

I had a lot of difficulty growing up in a society where everything is very closed-minded, especially with beauty.

I learnt a hard fact: that dignity is a luxury in our country.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma.

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

The field of AI has traditionally been focused on computational intelligence, not on social or emotional intelligence. Yet being deficient in emotional intelligence (EQ) can be a great disadvantage in society.

Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.