“If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.”
Society is the agreement we all live under without ever signing a contract. These quotes examine culture, community, inequality, progress, and the ongoing negotiation between individual freedom and collective responsibility.
“Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.”
“If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.”
“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.”
“The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.”
“Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.”
“Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.”
“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.”
“I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.”
“The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.”
“The whole system of society tells you what to do.”
“In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.”
“It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.”
“The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.”
“In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.”
“A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.”
“I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.”