Quotes About Society

The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

Capitalistic society teaches kids to be No. 1, but true self-esteem doesn't come from money. It doesn't come from winning the Super Bowl.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

If evil wins in a Bollywood film, it is bound to flop. A lot of people here want to change society, so they like to read about it being changed. And that means good usually triumphs.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

I personally can tell you that all my girlfriends - and many women I've spoken to - have this fear of being perceived as desperate or forward when they want to approach a man. It was always, 'He must text you first' - but why?

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

No one is going to thank us afterwards for a Brexit that reduces people's quality of life.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'

We are very, very far from recognising polygamy in our country, thank God.

The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd).

I think all the garbage in the world is thanks to a very small handful of idiots.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

The neoliberal policies implemented first by the Thatcher governments in the 1980s and continued by New Labour and the current coalition have resulted in a privatisation of stress.

I don't want to be an old man in a pub singing about Margaret Thatcher.

Thatcher was wrong. People don't exist - well, they don't flourish - as individuals. Life's about swapping ideas and communicating with other people.

One of the reasons that Thatcher promoted home ownership is that it promoted responsible citizens with a stake in society. But another reason was that those people would tend to be Conservative.

While every effort is being undertaken to make the memory of the Thatcher government disappear, Thatcherism is still working its way through the system.