Society Quotes
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Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.
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There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.
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We should allow DREAMers to declare that they are not criminals, that they want to be here, want to fully participate in their society and get on the books. We should make college, work, and military service available to them.
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I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.
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In a sensibly organised society, if you improve productivity, there is room for everybody to benefit.
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It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
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When an industry matures, it means it's not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That's the obligation of the multi-national corporation: to put the factory where it can make the widget as cheap as possible. Don't get angry when a corporation does that; we've all bought into this concept. We live in a capitalistic society.
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It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion and my take on Andy as an artist now comes down to a simple sentence: he made religious art for a secular society which is why it has so much appeal.
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There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.
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I don't understand and don't enjoy sci-fi, and it's just that if people aren't real, and they don't live in a real and recognizable society, I don't understand what to do.
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If change is to come-as it must-it needs to be from within an Islamic framework and introduced by Muslims who have credibility within their own society.
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It's important for our nation that our military and our society be close together. That's important for democracy. And it's important for recruiting. It's important for retention. It's important for building support for our engagements overseas.
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Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
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Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.
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Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.
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What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?
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I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.
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Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
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The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
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All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.
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If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.
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I've always believed that the artiste is the one who has his pulse on the society and who, in many ways, represents the conscience of society in terms of engaging standards that we need to live by.
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I say every slur on the planet - racial, homosexual, everything to do with every ethnic group on the planet - and guess what? I will never apologize for that because I know why I do it, and it is to make a valid point about ignorance in this society.
