American Society Quotes

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.
Isaac Asimov

Society, American, Read

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.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Time, Society, Through

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
Bryant H. McGill

Equality, Society, True

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

Work, Society, End

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

Society, Long, American

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
Joe Biden

Society, American, Took

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.
Mark Levin

Government, Society, Reason

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.
Peter Singer

Future, Society, America

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

Society, American, Reaction

I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.
Donna Shalala

Society, Fun, Sex

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.
Antonio Banderas

Society, American, Means

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

Good, Society, Win

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.
Rudolf Arnheim

Time, Society, Same

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.
Zoe Saldana

War, Society, Movies

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.
Ginnifer Goodwin

Society, Mean, Understand

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.
Theodore Sturgeon

Society, Medical, Problem

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
Dan Aykroyd

Society, Around, American

American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
Zach Galifianakis

Society, Down, American

I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
Ted Rall

Society, American, Generation

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.
Ernest Istook

Society, American, Year

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.
Douglas Sirk

Home, Society, True

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.
Frank Gaffney

Society, Another, American

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

Good, Society, Bad

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

Society, American, Composed

If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations.
Richard V. Allen

Society, Forward, Cannot

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.
Kendrick Meek

Hope, Society, Legal

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.
Peter Carey

Society, True, Thought

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.
Raul Grijalva

War, Society, American

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.
Eric Sevareid

Change, Society, American

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.
Lee Atwater

Society, Spiritual, Heart

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