Quotes about Society
On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
by Martin Sheen (Actor, American , born in 1940) keywords: encourage, politics, privileged , public
I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.
by George Smathers (Politician, American , born in 1913) keywords: believe, equality, know , social
And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?
by Robert Sternberg (Educator, American , born in 1949) keywords: name, parents, positions , privileged
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
by Thomas Szasz (Psychologist, American , born in 1920) keywords: among, because, collective, creates, democratic, distinctions, guilt, individual, meaningful, meaningless, men, mind, moral, now, odious, prefer, punishment, responsibility, unfashionable , which
We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.
by Roger Wicker (Politician, American , born in 1951) keywords: american, assistance, foreign, humanitarian , national
