Our Society Quotes - Page 13

• If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start reinstituting all of these values, the morality in the culture, in our society; the respect for rule of law. And then you look at what we're up against, an entire Democrat Party.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Law, Culture

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is shameful to see politicians exploiting these human weaknesses in order to gain political power. It is most depressing of all to contemplate a future in which politicians who do this will continue to have influence over people's lives.

  Allen W. Wood

  Depressing, Xenophobia, Persistence

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We, the monarchs, are undoubtedly constants in a constantly changing world. Because we have always been there, but also because we do not get involved in everyday politics. We are aware of the political changes in our societies, but we don't comment on them. This is where we assume a unique position.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Unique, Political, Everyday

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Where people coming into our country who are going to cause you and our law enforcement tremendous problems and therefore our society in the future. Because we have politicians that should be ashamed of themselves.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Law, People

  Source: time.com

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• I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

  Charlize Theron

  Flower, Thinking, People

  Source: wwd.com

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• There would be a cost for dumping carbon into our atmosphere and a cap on total emissions. The government must make a clear and firm decision - terminating the idea in our society it is free to pump infinite amounts of carbon into the air. Once that happens, private capital will flow even more aggressively into developing and deploying the alternative, less-polluting technologies.

  Van Jones

  Technology, Government, Air

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many bringing a greater flourishing to our society to the glory of God.

  David Kim

  People, Host, Glory

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize behavior that will move us to a post-carbon, post-animal agriculture world, and make our societies more resilient to the shocks that are already baked into the system. But that doesn't make climate change an "economic issue."

  Dale Jamieson

  Moving, Animal, Agriculture

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

  Tom Hayden

  Alternatives, Messages, Urgency

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play. I try to embrace the silliness of it.

  Matt Letscher

  Play, Trying, Important

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented.

  Ted Leo

  Loss, Desire, Identity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation of immigrants into our society and culture. So these tendencies are fairly universal. The problem is what if they get out of hand and become the dominant factor in a society, which can only lead to the oppression of minorities or even to war with neighboring societies with differing cultures. That's why it seems to me it's important to try to keep these tendencies toward extremism under control.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Attitude, War, Taken

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

  Jane Goodall

  Behaviour, Social, Norm

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• So much of our society as a whole is gearing us to maximize our salary or bonus. Basically, we just think in terms of money. Or, if not money, then, if you're in academia, it's prestige. It's a different kind of currency. And there's this unmeasured dimension of all jobs, which is whether it's improving the world.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Jobs, Thinking, Bonus

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I created the Huffington Post in the United States of America which is a left of center blog. I created my blogs which are mostly right of center and I believe in open debate in our society.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Believe, America, United States

  Source: latinalista.com

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• What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.

  Erich Fromm

  People, Development, Common

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

  Keith Ellison

  Together, Needs, Exclusion

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

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• I hope what we can talk about is something that happened, you know, within the last 25 years, the things that are relevant to our country right here, right now, including all people, fighting for the rights of working people, fighting for the rights of people struggling for dignity and respect in our society.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

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• It's off the charts - and if you don't believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze risk in our society.

  Bill McKibben

  Believe, People, Risk

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• Where are the leaders who can speak to the idea that it is not alien to American interests, but very much in our socioeconomic interests - not to mention our spiritual health - to integrate immigrants, that our nation functions best when we welcome newcomers and help them participate fully in our society?

  Andrew Lam

  Spiritual, Ideas, Leader

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.

  Max Lucado

  Stories, Platitudes

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Oxygen, Ifs

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Government, Issues

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us.

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, Data, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The idea that it's smart to allow Wall Street firms, with this "too big to fail" imprimatur, to become hedge funds again - it's unconscionable. You're essentially saying we're going to take some elites in our society and let them roll the bones in the marketplace, and if it works out they get rich, and if it doesn't work out the taxpayer comes in again. That seems absolutely crazy to me. That seems to be where they're headed. I mean, maybe they're not and I'm wrong. Maybe they'll do sensible things. It's hard to know! There doesn't seem to be a plan.

  Michael Lewis

  Wall, Crazy, Smart

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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