Famous Quotes About society

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.