Our Society Quotes - Page 8

In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.

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.

Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

Our society has become an employee society.

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

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

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.

What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.

No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

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.

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

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.

John Lewis is an icon in our society.

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

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.

Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isn’t conscious; it’s Pavlovian. (13)

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.

In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.