3 December 2020 Shailene Woodley You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we’re always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what’s actually in front of us.
3 December 2020 George Saunders I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I’ve done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
3 December 2020 Strom Thurmond If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.
3 December 2020 Jerry Falwell AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
3 December 2020 Louis Althusser 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.
3 December 2020 Tony Benn We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
3 December 2020 David Ogilvy Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
3 December 2020 Shirley Chisholm Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
3 December 2020 Jack Kevorkian This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
3 December 2020 Alex Haley Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
3 December 2020 Simon Mainwaring If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Kozol If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there’s no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
3 December 2020 Salvador Dali In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
3 December 2020 Joaquin Phoenix Whether you think a film will affect society or it’s plain entertainment, it’s all excellent, it’s all noble.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
3 December 2020 John Paul Stevens The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
3 December 2020 Jiddu Krishnamurti It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
3 December 2020 Jawaharlal Nehru The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
3 December 2020 Ethan Hawke In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
3 December 2020 Alex Grey In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
3 December 2020 Carl Sandburg In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
3 December 2020 Vince Lombardi People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
3 December 2020 John Lennon Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
