Society Quotes

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

I feel that it is a social responsibility for us who are better educated to give back some to the society in whatever service we can help.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

I'm used to being told by society that I must regulate my body to fit the norm. I'm used to the fact that images of unaltered women are seen as unacceptable.

I'm a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our life expectancy.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

We live in a welfare state society - one that is already bloated and overburdened. We cannot continue to absorb and support an endless stream of people who will inevitably need legal residents to subsidize their lives.

I was offered 'Pretty Woman.' I was offered 'Big' and 'Dead Poets Society.' But what was important to me in those years was to make movies, to make these Albert Brooks movies.

My mother is white. My biological father is black. When my mother was 17, she got pregnant. They lived in Waterloo, Iowa, which at the time in 1971 was a very segregated society.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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.

People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global.