Changing Society Quotes

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation.

It's not a traditional America anymore.

A constitution … is good for a certain people and for a certain time. It shouldn’t be mummified.

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

I think the sense of exclusivity that tended to be associated with religions in past times has now disappeared. At least it has disappeared in its political and social manifestations as far as I can see.

There goes traditional America.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.

Unfortunately, we are a society that does look down on divorce when, ironically, there are more single divorced people in the world right now. So, the fact of the matter is that it's a reality, and more people should obviously embrace wanting to change, wanting to move on from a relationship that just no longer works for them.

I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.

There is a new world coming and this new world is very rude.

Luxury is not a static concept, but it shapes and changes with society. Now somebody who might not have the time to come to one of our boutiques can shop online.

I think many people simply feel like they don't recognize their country anymore.

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

• As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux. Knowledge will continue to increase at a dizzying rate. This means that a content-based curriculum, with a set body of information to be imparted to students, is entirely inappropriate as a means of preparing children for their adult roles.

Little by little, we're becoming a boring Nordic country.

We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the fact that Britain is no longer a totally white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips; it's curry.

Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword "scientific objectivity" and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.