Quotes About Society

Not just in modeling, but in society, there's so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it's just so unobtainable. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection.

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

We, as a society, will benefit from the interest young people show beginning at first, second, and third grades. As a result, there's great promise in the future.

The promise of individual and collective emancipation implicit in the notion of progress appears to be broken.

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

Only the likes of Piers Morgan would be opposed to a Miss America contest that promises to be more 'empowering' and 'inclusive.'

What does that mean for a society, for a democracy, when the people that you elect on the basis of promises can basically suborn the will of the electorate?

This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.

I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.

Nowadays, independence is so promoted, it would be crazy for me to say I'd want a traditional woman who wants to stay at home.

I'm no fan of Sarkozy, but I support a ban on face veils because they erase women from society and are promoted by an ultra-conservative ideology that equates piety with the disappearance of women.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America!

Anytime you give a trans person an opportunity, especially an opportunity to be ourselves, you are promoting a shift in the way society sees us.

What the people want the most is to keep a balance between preventing further infections of the novel coronavirus and promoting economic activities.

Climate change deniers would have us believe that oil, gas, and coal are the only ways to power a modern, industrialized society. They are wrong, and the proof is all around us.

For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.