Quotes About Society

We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think its foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

If you have waves of immigration, you better figure out a way to turn those immigrants into red-blooded Americans, or else you end up splintering the society.

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.