Joe Mantegna Quotes

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

Joe Mantegna

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• These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Wish

• If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Society
  • Health
  • Care

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Early

• The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Society
  • Freeing
  • Releasing

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Society
  • Political

• It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Country
  • Society
  • Culture

• I think the ideology of the Congress is closest to mine. Congress is a party where I should be. I have joined politics to bring change in society. The Congress gave me a chance with the Aadhaar project. It's a party that will allow me to bring change.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Society
  • Change
  • Party

• Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • People
  • Why
  • Society

• If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Job
  • History
  • Society

• Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Society
  • Words

• I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Society
  • Lies

• Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Society
  • Teenagers

• The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Past

• In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • People
  • Society
  • Value

• A society that has no ideals, that discards the principles of humanitarianism, that abandons the fundamental rights and dignity of humanity, can only survive by denying truth, fairness and justice.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Justice

• When Dr. Stern wanted to know whether I was an alcoholic, when Dwight Macdonald asked me seriously whether I drank longshoremen under the table - I can only confess that yes, I did 'fling roses with the throng.'

  

  Dorothy Day

• My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Strategy

• Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Men
  • Spiritual
  • Learn

• I've slipped enough times over the years to know the peril of a too-smooth sole, so every time I buy a new pair, I take a pair of scissors or a piece of sandpaper to the bottoms to roughen them up. In my catwalk days, I even used to spit on the soles of shoes before I ventured down the runway.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Shoes

• But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

  

  Joe Mantegna
  • Society