Quotes About Society

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.

Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else that way, too.

All of us who covered the Reagans agreed that President Reagan was personable and charming, but I'm not so certain he was nice. It's hard for me to think of anyone as 'nice' when I hear him say 'The homeless are homeless because they want to be homeless.'

The Reagan program is not working because the program is not fair - and, just as important, because the people themselves know it is not fair.

Politics changes music most of the time. Ronald Reagan - you can kind of say that he made hip-hop what it was by the embargoes that he set. Certain things that he did created N.W.A in a way. Politics has always done that.

It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

I worry that if you see a row of self-checkouts, you think, 'That all used to be jobs and real people.'

Student loan debt is a real problem. People want to have serious conversations about that.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive; gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.

To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.

You have these people that fight wars for their country, and then they come home and they need to attend to their mental health, and they can't get a job. That's a real thing.

There's something that happens around 27 and 28, when people start coupling off more aggressively or changing their lives according to what their economic prospects are, and not keeping themselves on par with the group - you realise suddenly that they're not your family. And I think that's very painful.

hooting for 'Savdhaan India' in Mathura made me realise that no matter what place you come from be it a holy city, crime still prevails.

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice.

One of the great things about making 'Reel History' was meeting British people from all over the class system. It made me realise that London is a different country.

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

As Culture Secretary, I realised how you can use sport to do so many other good things for society.

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Social realism takes research.