Quotes On: Society

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.