Society quotes

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

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.

When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.