Our Society Quotes - Page 11

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.

Our society in general devalues the 'she' - qualities that are associated with the feminine that are found in all of us. As a result there's this imbalance and this distortion and it's hindering our progress.

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Now terrorism is not the greatest threat facing our societies.

Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up, however much our lifestyles and technologies have accelerated the rate at which we attempt to do things. It’s more of a diminishment of anything that isn’t happening right now—and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.

Art has to be reflective of our society.

When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many bringing a greater flourishing to our society to the glory of God.

We lost our way, our society lost our way.

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.

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.

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

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

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.

No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.

I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations.

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.

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

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.