Quotes About Society

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Sitcoms just don't show us that.

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

I've been overweight all my life.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

If you have a full understanding of what we're up against and the leadership of your country doesn't, well, hello. That's life in America today.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

There is no right life in the wrong one.

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.

America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.

Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.