Quotes About Society

People are threatened by female sexuality.

I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.

There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make?

The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.

The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

As women, we have to deal with constant threats of violence. And it's in our media and fiction, too. So we internalize it.

Threats to the rule of law come not only from rioters and looters in the streets, but also from activist judges on the bench.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

I can't be the only person in the world to have three different husbands, and yet those relationships are never talked about.

There are people who get to be three-dimensional humans in the United States, and there are people who do not.

To do de-Baathification without an agreed process of reconciliation threw tens of thousands of people out of their jobs, out of their homes, out of their future, and even robbed them of their position in society.

I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me.

I would always stand up for women, but I don't want women's rights and all that sort of thing. I love to have men around, and I suppose if you're a true feminist, you get on and do it yourself. I love it when someone says, 'I'll get your coat' or, 'I'll look after you', or offers you a seat on the bus. I'm thrilled to bits. I'm not a feminist.

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

It's interesting how thrillers reflect the times we live in.

American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast.

I think Wilkie Collins was a man ahead of his time, asking really important questions but also telling a really good and thrilling story.

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.