Our Society Quotes
Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.
Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.
When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.
Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.
Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.
Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.
I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.
If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.
We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.
In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.
Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats.
I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.
Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.
We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.
We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.
Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.
I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.
I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.
The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.
Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.
Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.
We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.
I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.
There's only winning and losing, and in our society, as in all societies, there's the person that's doing the winning, or there's the person that's facilitating the winning.
I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.
The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.
Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.
Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.
There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.
Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.
The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
