Quotes About Society

The fact is that during the post-1989 heyday of globalization optimism, political and business elites did not think enough about the prospect - plainly predicted in economic theory - that trade would harm some people even while leaving society as a whole better off. The result was overpromised benefits and inadequate adjustment plans.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

I believe in 'business has a force for good.' You know, business has an impact on society. Of course, it creates jobs. It creates prosperity, but on the other hand, we also leave a negative footprint behind.

The American Dream means any person can achieve prosperity through hard work and ingenuity because there are no inherent barriers in our society.

Businesses create every penny of the wealth we need to pay for our nation's schools, our NHS and our pensions. They are our only path to prosperity.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization.

Look around you and you see plenty of prosperous businessmen splurging money like there was no tomorrow but paying no taxes.

The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

It's worth pointing out that no one faults a male protagonist for falling in love. What is it about a boy needing a girl that seems to round out his character, while a girl needing a boy can be dismissed as pathetic?

The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.

It was the Conservatives who first protected people in the mills.

Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children's schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.

In communities of color, such as Ferguson, it often feels like the police are protecting the white community from us instead of protecting our communities from the criminal element.

Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality.

Our government is not protecting us. They are exploiting us.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

Our democratic culture does not prioritise protecting an individual's right to live life her way, especially if that is not our way or the way of the community.

In addition to protecting the rights of every citizen of our country, our Constitution makes the citizens of the country mindful of their duties.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.