The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society. – Jonathan Kozol
Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. – Jean Baudrillard
The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. – Joe Biden
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time. – J. J. Abrams
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it’s also in the system, the society. – James Hillman
I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year. – Jan C. Ting
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. – J. Edgar Hoover
America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to. – Jim Brown
‘Crash’ is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We’re distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction. – J. G. Ballard
The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a more successful society. This narrative is so devoid of historical context that it should embarrass anyone beyond a second-grade education. – James Howard Kunstler
China is a very brand-intensive society. The reason that brands are so very important is that they are a way to signal social status. – John Quelch
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. – John Ralston Saul
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order. – Jonathan Sacks
AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. – Jerry Falwell
Capitalistic society teaches kids to be No. 1, but true self-esteem doesn’t come from money. It doesn’t come from winning the Super Bowl. – Jim Brown
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society. – Johan Cruyff
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. – John Adams
You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it. – Jonah Goldberg
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn’t matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state. – Iain Banks
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs. – Ibrahim Babangida
Foucault’s genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed. – Ian Hacking
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. – Jonathan Kozol
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. – John le Carre
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral. – John Hurt
On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living. – Ingrid Betancourt
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. – James F. Cooper
