Quotes About Society

Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order.

Everyone is born with it but, unfortunately, our society and culture are programmed to kill creativity.

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

I think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for schools, the arts are the first programs to go. But the arts built the things we need more than anything else: collaboration and co-operation and creativity.

National service coupled with education awards, such as AmeriCorps programs or Teach For America, can help young people gain skills and contribute to society without accumulating excessive debt. It gives them a means to develop job skills and discover career paths.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

Materialistic progress alone does not guarantee national security. What is essential is the character and integrity of the country's citizens.

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and progress things and move things forward. And that fascinated me, because I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life.

Watching the progression and backlash against feminism even since 1970 will give you a serious case of whiplash.

The Americans I know are not willing to abandon our police and our great Democratic experiment to the pathetic cowardice - or worse - of the progressive Left.

Democracy is about institutions: it's about having things like schools and judiciary and the Ford Foundation, or 'The Nation' magazine - you need progressive institutions, you know what I mean? Those are important institutions to make sure that the government functions.

Nothing should be banned. Anything that is progressive and contributes something to society shouldn't come in the way of politics.

There should be complete freedom of thought for a progressive society.

I joined the Green Party because I believe it to be the most progressive party in Canadian politics and offering the most progressive policies and to be constantly working toward a more just and equitable society.

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.

My government is truly concerned with bringing prohibition.

Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.