Quotes About Society

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

We are ALL sexually abused by virtue of the fact that we live in a sex-negative society.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

Yeah, because nobody works in socialist countries. They're a real hoot.

We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

There's a view in Russian society that there are 'male professions' and 'female professions.' The women should be looking after the home and children. It makes me sad. But the only thing you can do is fight it.

Many women are the lower-earning partner in a married couple, thanks in part to forces that relegate women to less remunerative professions and pay them less for the same work.

The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.

You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

Hopefully, we will become a stronger democratic society and avoid falling into xenophobia. Hopefully, we build good relationships with our neighboring countries and, rather than acting for profit for the current generation, acting in a way that will ensure we leave natural resources for future generations.

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.

Single-payer is about making our society a better place. It's about putting people over profits.

The reason to do any barking - well, the reason for me - is that 'Three Billboards' feels so off about so many things. It's one of those movies that really do think they're saying something profound about human nature and injustice.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.

We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

Top Boy' isn't the type of programme that is trying to be righteous and have a happy ending, it is just real.