Top 70 Societal Quotes

Clothing shouldn’t be a societal shackle. It should be art and truth and a way for us to show the world what we want out of it. It’s environmental armor.

Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.

In Europe, you would almost never have people with large amounts of income being happy with a two-volume vehicle like a hatchback or a minivan. They want to structurally show their societal position, which is why three volumes are so popular. They show ‘I’m part of that hierarchy.’

Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn’t realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it’s done, you can’t remember what all the fuss was about.

I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don’t know if that’s just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it’s a different kind of attitude.

A degree in Liberal Arts has long been considered the most adaptable, with humanitarian and societal studies that prepare graduates to enter a wide variety of careers.

While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn’t change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority, and we are fed a steady diet of it 24/7. To not actively seek to interrupt racism is to internalize and accept it.

If women have an income, they will invest a higher proportion of that income in their children than men do. So you do get those societal returns very quickly.

The marketing business has been just about promoting things, but we don’t believe that anymore. There has to be a societal component, too.

Duryodhan was a prince fighting for his throne. He was powered by ambition and aspiration. Parshuram is godly. His fight is against injustice at a larger societal level. I’ve enjoyed playing both the characters.

At the root of any societal issue is human truth, especially those truths we find hard to confront.

Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?

IBM’s long-standing mantra is ‘Think.’ What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.

I am an actor so I have to do my work and going beyond societal norms.

Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for ‘Saturday Night Live,’ has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman’s nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal interaction, ‘Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.’

I turned six in 1977. Youth athletics then was nothing like this, and I wondered how things changed so much. I started looking at our societal emphasis on sports, using the most tangible metric by which we measure emphasis: money.

It’s so wonderful that women continue to break down barriers and change societal expectations, but women still suffer discrimination for their gender, class, and race.

I hate the fact that we all feel the pressure to go to gyms, have a trainer if money allows, get jogging – all those societal pressures to keep fit and look a certain way.

Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.

Paid leave is a not just a mother and child issue, it’s a societal issue we have.

I will continue my work to shepherd in this important societal change… In addition to working on AI myself, I will also explore new ways to support all of you in the global AI community so that we can all work together to bring this AI-powered society to fruition.

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation – not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

Instead of worrying about potential disruption, brands can be creative societal disruptors – because their consumers will be right there by their side as committed partners in a better life.

Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.

Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.

Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.

In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have to quench this thirst with literature. If you live in a mafia state with lots of violence on the streets, you tend to write beautiful poetry.

What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.

I’m drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.

I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really looking at race, population, gender, and how we psychologically function in a way that affects our societal outcomes around those issues.

Trauma and sexual abuse are two of our most pressing human and societal problems. They must be studied by unbiased scientific investigation rather than polarized by hysteria and politics.

The fact we don’t have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

We have a lot of societal problems that we have to fix in the 1990s.

As a general rule, I do not think judges should consider current societal preferences when ruling on constitutional challenges.

Everyone says ‘Anna Karenina’ is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.

Of course, deciding whether or not to have children is a personal decision, but I would encourage couples to stay open to the idea that having a child or adopting provides both personal and societal benefits.

The kosher community tends to follow often several years behind the general societal trends.

Technological change is never an isolated phenomenon. This revolution takes place inside a complex ecosystem which comprises business, governmental and societal dimensions. To make a country fit for the new type of innovation-driven competition, the whole ecosystem has to be considered.

Societal good comes first for me.

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

Thinking about the artists I’ve loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who’ve made music with cultural, societal and political significance.

Pataal Lok’ explores the depths of human and societal immorality through a captivating storyline and exemplary talents.

Bumble is about equality. We are reverse-engineering traditional societal norms.

It’s a lovely feeling, just working away at the desk, putting words down, building words up… I think you have to be aware that what you’re doing is not just a private act, it’s a societal thing.

In the U.S. or in the West, mobility means owning your own car. Cities are designed around spread-out suburbs, societal customs are that kids get a car after a certain age, and car ownership is very high.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

From a societal aspect, when you are impatient behind a driverless car and there’s no one to listen to your beeping horn, what are people going to do? How are they going to take out their aggression?

The most successful apps have taken a societal problem and built an accessible and democratic solution.

To the extent societal rules or the wiring of your brains make it easy to acquire a lot of assets, then to the extent you can, you should try to improve the world.