Quotes About Society

It's been overlooked for a long time as a real public health problem. All of western society is a little bit sleep-deprived, and when I say a little bit, I mean chronically.

Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.

Defining of the public interest is always very, very difficult.

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.

It is this desire to see civil society remain a strong and united force within the U.K. that has encouraged me to chair Citizens U.K. Commission on Islam, Participation and Public Life.

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.

American public policy is run on a myth.

The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy.

Public opinion shapes public policy dramatically.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

Broken families not only affect the people involved, but they have an impact on public policy decisions in Washington, D.C., and state capitols around the nation.

Public safety is a public health issue.

Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.

Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.

Ensuring preschool education for all and investing more in public schools is essential if the U.S. is to avoid becoming a neo-feudal country where advantages and disadvantages are passed on from one generation to the next.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

Just and equal society could be made by drastically improving the condition of India's public schools.

The most confident people in Britain are those who went to top public schools and Trotskyists.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.