Society quotes

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.

Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.