Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get social polarization. The whole lower middle class sinks. ”

The problems that ail the U.S. economy and American society are one and the same: Both consume too much and refuse to make badly needed changes. This is true above all in the realm of energy. ”

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed. ”

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome. ”

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. ”

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. ”

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. ”

I feel like every actor charts a different course in their respective career in the industry. Everyone has an individual journey. So, you can't compare one to another. ”

All of us are hungry to be a part of great stories. There are some fortunate ones who get it early in their career, and there are some, for whom it takes a little while to get to be even considered for a part which could be promising. ”

I want to work with happy, good people, who have a positive outlook. Not those who are grumpy, complaining and throw diva behaviour. ”