Quotes About Society

In the case of the Paris Agreement, if we want to have full compliance with the Paris Agreement, we need not only action by governments; we need the action by all of society.

I think gender parity is a crucial part of any healthy society. It's applicable to the entire world.

I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.

None of us want to live in a society where people are forced to sleep in shop doorways, on park benches or in dangerous, run-down buildings.

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.

In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often.

I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

People assume that I'm an aristocrat, but I don't really feel part of any class.

We should allow DREAMers to declare that they are not criminals, that they want to be here, want to fully participate in their society and get on the books. We should make college, work, and military service available to them.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.

It's very hard to participate in society when you can't talk to people on the medium that they talk to other people on.

There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.

It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

Ours was not always a nation of homeowners; the New Deal fashioned it so, particularly through the G.I. Bill of Rights.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society.

I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.