Quotes of: Societies Keyword

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

Juan Cole

Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

Jack Gleeson

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Jack Kemp

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

John Key

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

Johann Most

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Jawaharlal Nehru

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

Jessica Savitch

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

Jonathan Sacks

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

Joni Eareckson Tada

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Providing 'freemium' cloud storage to society is not a crime. What will Hollywood do when smartphones and tablets can wirelessly transfer a movie file within milliseconds?

Kim Dotcom

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

Karl Marlantes

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

Karin Slaughter

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

Kathleen Turner

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Lord Byron

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

Larry Niven

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

Lee Harvey Oswald

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.

Lucy Powell

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.

Michael Bennet

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Michael Crichton

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?

Matt Dillon