Quotes about American Society

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society. Votes: 3

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid. Votes: 3

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years. Votes: 3

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. Votes: 3

In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century. Votes: 3

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. Votes: 3

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. Votes: 1

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. Votes: 1

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours. Votes: 1

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. Votes: 1

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises. Votes: 1

I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society. Votes: 1

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. Votes: 1

I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people. Votes: 1

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. Votes: 1

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English. Votes: 1

...the danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values is one that hardly troubles us. Votes: 1

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. Votes: 1

Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers. Votes: 1

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position. Votes: 1

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia. Votes: 1

American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast. Votes: 1

What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it. Votes: 1

If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full of middle-aged, slightly alcoholic, middle-class, intellectual men, most of whom are divorced from their families and have nothing to do with children. Votes: 1

The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society. Votes: 1

You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are involved in every part of American society. That's why they have to start being represented in Hollywood, because an 'Americano' can't walk down the street and not see a Latino. Votes: 1

Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack. Votes: 1

Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II. Votes: 1

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it. Votes: 1

I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I mean, I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs. Votes: 1

There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as a quite free society. It's also true to say that the powers that be have so much control over how people think that there are fewer and fewer people who make use of the rights and information available to them. Votes: 1

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance. Votes: 1

American society is still puritanical. Votes: 0

American society has gone completely into denial. Votes: 0

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Votes: 0

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation. Votes: 0

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music. Votes: 0

American society loves to prop people up and then take them down. Votes: 0

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society. Votes: 0

The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society. Votes: 0

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival. Votes: 0

The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice. Votes: 0

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society. Votes: 0

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change. Votes: 0

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society. Votes: 0

The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society. Votes: 0

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more. Votes: 0

Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified. Votes: 0

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction. Votes: 0

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state. Votes: 0

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical. Votes: 0

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied. Votes: 0

The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country. Votes: 0

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman. Votes: 0

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. Votes: 0

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy. Votes: 0

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life. Votes: 0

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. Votes: 0

North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society. Votes: 0

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom. Votes: 0

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV. Votes: 0

I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that but I know that's just American society. Votes: 0

The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders Votes: 0

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. Votes: 0

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions Votes: 0

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony. Votes: 0

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself, Votes: 0

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society. Votes: 0

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process. Votes: 0

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. Votes: 0

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life. Votes: 0

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis. Votes: 0

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike. Votes: 0

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away. Votes: 0

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union. Votes: 0

Speech to American Horticultural Society; when challenged to use horticulture in a sentence: You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. Votes: 0

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference. Votes: 0

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. Votes: 0

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo. Votes: 0

The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735. Votes: 0

Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are "universally accepted." Votes: 0

I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that. Votes: 0

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies. Votes: 0

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced. Votes: 0

[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals. Votes: 0

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people. Votes: 0

American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world. Votes: 0

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan. Votes: 0

The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established. Votes: 0

Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream. Votes: 0

Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document. Votes: 0

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore. Votes: 0

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through Votes: 0

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever. Votes: 0

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. Votes: 0

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society. Votes: 0

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati. Votes: 0

I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone. Votes: 0

For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society. Votes: 0

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government. Votes: 0

Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism. Votes: 0

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society. Votes: 0

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society. Votes: 0

Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today. Votes: 0

With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away. Votes: 0

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around. Votes: 0

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way. Votes: 0

Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society. Votes: 0

Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work. Votes: 0

The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the development of music in the New World. Votes: 0

Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society. Votes: 0

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul. Votes: 0

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be. Votes: 0

I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace. Votes: 0

The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society. Votes: 0

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley. Votes: 0

Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree. Those born in the wealthiest quarter of American society have a 75% chance of earning a college degree. Votes: 0

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything. Votes: 0

The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers. Votes: 0

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country. Votes: 0

It is clear to me that the racism was on the other foot, that really, society in Europe was much more racist - vis-à-vis Arabs at least and black Africans - than American society. Votes: 0

For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the people who are being ruined by it, and so this doesn't happen again. Votes: 0

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms. Votes: 0

The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way? Votes: 0