The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, ‘We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.’ – Iggy Pop
I’ve always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there’s nobody left to take care of them. – Janet Fitch
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat. – Ice Cube
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society. – Jacqueline Novogratz
White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it’s like to be black in America. That’s not a slam against white people or an accusation of latent bigotry. But the fact is that we all live in an Anglo-dominated society. – John Ridley
If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us. – Irwin Redlener
To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It’s not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It’s always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives. – Janine di Giovanni
I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it? – J. K. Rowling
My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot. – Gong Li
Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society. – Jim Ryun
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. – James Spader
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change. – Joe Biden
I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society. – Joni Eareckson Tada
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals. – Jesse Helms
If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we’d have a better society. – Jeb Bush
Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard. – John Trudell
As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if – to quote Professor Higgins – a woman could be more like a man. – Julie Burchill
Bankers – pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. – John Ralston Saul
Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted. – John Mackey
I think ‘The Wire’ is my all-time favorite TV show. It’s so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power. – Joel Kinnaman
No government is here forever. And there are other forces – the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business – doing good for the environment. – Jared Diamond
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports. – John Hodgman
The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles. – Jackson Katz
Civility, politeness, it’s like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it. – Jeremy Irons
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. – Jill Lepore
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society. – Jackie Chan
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John F. Kennedy
