Quotes About Society

In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

I've never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn't feel right or isn't going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.

The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Taxes grow without rain.