Society Quotes
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We have a problem with dealing with race in our country. We have a problem with dealing with marriage equality and equality in general. These are complex, divisive issues in our society, and I think that the only way we further this conversation is to take them down to a very human scale.
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Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.
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The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
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Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
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U.S. is a merit-based society... There is no glass ceiling if you have good performance track record and leadership skills.
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All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.
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This book... too, is a society - of many small ideas. Each by itself is only common sense, yet when we join enough of them we explain the strangest mysteries of mind.
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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
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As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.
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Because I am a one-legged, black, short, woman I had to spend every day of my life pushing against what society told me I should be. I had to sell my value every day of my life. Confidence is what enables us to push back on reality. Once you get good at that, you can use it to live your joy.
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For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.
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As our society tips toward one based on data, our collective decisions around how that data can be used will determine what kind of a culture we live in.
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We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our children. I think we need to set a standard that is entertainment industry wide, not just limited to hip-hop.
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I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.
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The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.
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When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!
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I look at society and I look at people and I say... I'm not Mr. Motivator. I think you get a better sense - I believe in energy. I believe in passion. I believe in teaching people.
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I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.
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Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
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Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
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Every major industrial society believes that it has a serious youth problem.
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Feminism means to me aquality, actually. Women having equal rights to every thing the male population have in all aspects. Whether that's socially, or within the household or in the workplace. I don't find it a difficult word but it does have a lot of baggage. There's still a lot of work to be done in various parts of the world and society. If you look at where a woman's place was a couple of generations ago, there's been a huge development and progression. And it's an important queston to keep bringing up.
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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a conservative organization. I am a conservative. You can't get more conservative than being a conservationist. Our entire raison de etre is to conserve and protect. The radicals of the world are destroying our oceans and our forests, our wildlife and our freedom.
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Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.
