Quotes About Society

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

Fame has become less and less important to me, it's more of a burden than anything else.

Growing up in the '70s, if you were a girl or woman, a man could tell you what to do - if you were sitting on the bus: 'Get up,' 'Move,' whatever. You did what you were told.

As a society, we need to refocus on creating an economy that works for everyone. I believe the business community is in the best position to lead the way.

I don't think families can earn enough money with one wage-earner any more. I also think there are a lot of men who don't want to bust their butts and do that kind of work. They want to stay home with the kids, but guys who do want to do that aren't looked up to as the masculine kind of guy, and that's a shame.

If we put people to work and they are busy, we will have less crime.

Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

Black women usually don't get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does it, he may even get to be the president of the United States.

For me, fashion succeeds when it says something about the times we live in.

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of American government and society, but an operational imperative is here, too. An intelligence community charged with global responsibilities cannot be successful without diversity of thought, culture and language.

I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

Obama has been successfully dividing Americans like no other president in history.

Paradoxically, just at the point when racist attitudes were declining in society and many ethnic groups were integrating successfully, our political leaders became obsessed with racism.

Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.

I am surprised that everyone loves a criminal. It amazes me and I really don't know how to react to it. Bob Biswas has become some sort of an idol, which is interesting because such a thing has happened for the first time.

In Bollywood, people have been making movies for more than half a century and they are made in such a way that you need not shed off all your inhibitions.

The world has been set up in such a way that we don't even realise how ingrained certain things are, like how much we live in a patriarchal society or how institutional racism is ingrained in how we see the world. We don't realise how many things are being set in stone, in our heads.