Quotes About Society

Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas and passions of the time must lend themselves to their committal.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot.

I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today.

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a half times.

When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?