Top 1200 Mainstream Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

I've always been weird, and into weird stuff that has a hard time finding mainstream success.

I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening.

This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!

In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance.

I know in our mainstream culture, the loudest voices and the most shocking voices are the ones that get the noise.

Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

Many women are so scared of the society and of their families, that if they get pregnant out of wedlock, they would rather abandon their children-throw them into the gutter, than to confront society. Indonesia has one of the highest child-abandonment rates in the world, but again, most of it goes unreported.

I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.

Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.

Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose the path of a socialist market economy. We have achieved strong economic growth, and yet the sense of solidarity in our society has not been lost. This is very important to people.

It's a long process transitioning from indie to mainstream, and it's not that easy because it's a different environment when you are in the indie industry.

I don't wanna go full mainstream and have my followers go 'What happened?'

I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go.

We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to read books the better our society will be and the wiser our society will be.

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others

Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?" Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?

In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us.

Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy; society is an example of the general concept of an "ecosystem" that is, an ecological system of which biological systems - forests, fields, swamps - are other examples.

I was this classic film school snob who thought mainstream cinema was synonymous with bad cinema.

Mainstream feminism might remember that the war on women always starts with the war on whores.

I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.

Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.

Mainstream media is the enemy... but now it's time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag.

Socialisation is not optional. It's an inescapable contract, and our birth into the world is our signature of agreement. Norms and ideologies vary from society to society, and most of them weren't formed during our lifetimes but were handed down from one generation to the next.

I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.

Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.

Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.

Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.

I like mainstream cinema. I like films that are definitely commercial. I try and stick to that as much as possible.

The word 'midget' is a slur. It evolved from P. T. Barnum's era of circuses and freak shows. Society has evolved. So should our vocabulary. Language is a powerful tool. It does not just name our society. It shapes it.

We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!

We do not just strive for a society in which every person has the opportunity to reach their full potential (all parties lay claim to that); we want to build a society in which whatever talents people have, they are rewarded with a comfortable standard of living when they apply them.

The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples.

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.

My only agenda is, I would like to see mainstream America more empowered to set an agenda.

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

Is the mainstream becoming more queer? Or is it the opposite? That artists like me are mainstreaming queer music?

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

There is the specter of "realism" that is still haunting Chinese contemporary art - that art is only an instrument, an instrument to reflect society, that it must be useful for society. Also, I have noticed many Western media outlets are very insistent on understanding contemporary art in China through this kind of realist approach. Sometimes I even sense that they are intent on, as we say in China, "picking bones of politics out of an egg of art." Or perhaps they see art as merely an instrument to reflect society.

The sense that I get is that every election cycle, the mainstream press devolves more and more.

I think my influence on Donald Trump is way, way lower than what mainstream media has said.

I am a believer in Adam Smith, who says that if you look at something that really contributes value to society, and you can deliver it at a reasonable price, then society will recognise that at some point because rational behaviour will come into play.

There are very very few narratives in mainstream that are actually about the woman.

Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream.

Bhangra is a beautiful dance form slowly making its place in the mainstream dance forms worldwide.