Quotes About Society

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.

A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our 'natural' condition.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

A revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated.

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.