Quotes About Society

Education seems to be placing increased emphasis on assessment and tracking, which means parents are terrified that if their kid doesn't exceed their expected learning level at six years old, they are immediately put in the class that ends up working at McDonald's.

I am terrified of being old and single.

Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

What makes 'The Handmaid's Tale' so terrifying is that everything that happens in it is plausible.

I'm certainly old enough to be a grandmother. I think it's interesting that it should be an issue, that being seen as a grandmother should be terrifying to women.

Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time.

Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'

The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.

We need a pope to usher in a new era of inclusion, the end of a sinful clericalism, and a strong sense of duty to those on society's margins. The 1 billion faithful long for a leader who is fearless and driven - not by terror but by love.

'Cartel Land' explores what happens when - in a Mexican society without order, law or security - vendettas, terror, and corruption go hand in hand with the pursuit of a better world.

This age of terror will end one day, but whether our society can restore the feeling of freedom that once was our birthright is hard to predict.

You can't leave the fight against terrorism to the government because it affects us as well.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

I think that in our society we use the word 'terrorism' a lot - individuals throw the word around a lot without carefully considering it.

The fact is, working stiffs with few opportunities and scant education are generally too busy getting by to engage in revolutionary projects to remake society. And history, in fact, shows us that terrorism is generally a bourgeois endeavor.

The diagnosis that poverty, lack of education, or lack of opportunities have much to do with terrorism requires a fundamentally optimistic view of human nature. This diagnosis leads to the prognosis that all we need to do to solve the terrorism problem is to create societies that are less poor, better educated and have more opportunities.