Society Quotes
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In contemporary society the typical lady is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.
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When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.
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Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.
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Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity, and with a monetary system which rigidly links the quantity of money to the stock of the precious metals, it will be essential for the maintenance of prosperity that the authorities should pay close attention to the state of the balance of trade. For a favourable balance, provided it is not too large, will prove extremely stimulating; whilst an unfavourable balance may soon produce a state of persistent depression.
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If evil wins in a Bollywood film, it is bound to flop. A lot of people here want to change society, so they like to read about it being changed. And that means good usually triumphs.
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The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.
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The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.
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The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.
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A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.
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Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
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We've created the class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that it's very, very difficult to reconnect to society.
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Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.
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The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.
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People that create jobs create tax payers, which benefits society as a whole.
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The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
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There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
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I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.
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In real life, people are integrated into society. That's what happens in my books as well. Minor characters don't just walk in and spout lines, they interact and have an effect on the events. It's not an isolated universe.
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Through fashion, it's possible to express deep values of one's creative talent and also the values that are expected of society.
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If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
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Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.
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Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.
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In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.
