Quotes About Society

Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Everyone thinks you have to grow up to know who you are, but kids already know who we are. The world just beats it out of us.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

I find it really funny that men can always get away with being a ladies man. Everyone thinks it's really cool. But a girl can't really date boys all the time because everybody looks down on her. I think boys get away with things so much easier.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and... that's not good.

Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.

I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

These days, I feel like a chunky spy in a thinner world. Strangers tell fat jokes in front of me. Jokes not meant for me. But... completely for the woman I used to be 150 pounds ago. The woman I could be again one day. The woman I will always be inside. Because being thinner doesn't make you a different person. It just makes you thinner.

I absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'

No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.

Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.

Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

In Iran, we had a really good life. Everything is good. Iran is considered, I think, a Third World country. I don't know what it is considered but it's not considered to be up there.

I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.

Europe and the first world to which the United States belongs remain mostly white for now, and the third world, although mixed, contains a lot of nonwhite people.