Society Quotes

If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.

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

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.

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.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.