Quotes About Society

Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look around and there's a lack of good, strong, upstanding Christian men who are not afraid to be men and just own up to their responsibility.

The government needs to invest in raising digital fluency of its citizenry.

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.

Liberals don't think parents can be left to their own devices when it comes to raising our children.

Men want to play a bigger and equal role in raising their children, but as a society we don't support them in that.

When I go to speak at schools, I speak to mothers and fathers, because the way we are raising kids in our country is wrong.

Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will do, not everyone is cut out for parenthood. And, as many a childless teacher has proved, raising kids is not the only important contribution a person can make to their future.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

Like 'Ram Jaane,' 'Mon Churi' also looks at the darker side of life and encapsulates the story of human beings who live on the fringes of society. But the plots are different.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

People aren't really mean to me, but people say random things.

No one I hang out with thinks that a random person on the street should be able to buy a machine gun.

Fat has a range of experiences.

The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn't really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

I can't tell you the number of times people have told me if I just lost 10kg, I could go much further in my career. But I'm determined to show them - and other average-size women - it is doable and possible.

I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.