When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not. Anna Deavere Smith
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters. Bear Grylls
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. Barbara Kingsolver
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves. Barbara Kingsolver
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. Friedrich Durrenmatt
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. Rutherford B. Hayes
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. Don DeLillo
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society. Kjell Magne Bondevik
I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats. Ian Somerhalder
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. Patrick J. Kennedy
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window? Ingrid Newkirk
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves. Curt Schilling
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting. Ingrid Newkirk
I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen. Lionel Blue
I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it. Jodie Foster
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
But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives. Joan D. Vinge
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. Wilma Mankiller
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education. Rainn Wilson