Our Society Quotes

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

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.

We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.

Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.

I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring.

It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

It's too bad our society isn't further along.

I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.

This issue has brought out the ugly in our society.

In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.

The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.

Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.

As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future?

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

The U.S. military is so far behind the rest of our society.

There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

I created the Huffington Post in the United States of America which is a left of center blog. I created my blogs which are mostly right of center and I believe in open debate in our society.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

It's off the charts - and if you don't believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze risk in our society.

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind of manufacture highs and lows.

The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.