Conservative Society Quotes

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

Even in a conservative society like Chennai, youngsters don't feel bound by conventions anymore.

To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything.

We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

The Chinese move very slowly. Our customs are so fixed that it takes much time to change them.

When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.

Saudi Arabia isn't just a conservative country with different values we shouldn't judge. It is a modern Gilead.

When I visited Africa to make my film 'Music by Prudence,' I was struck by how intensely religious and socially conservative Africans were. There was literally a church on every corner.

My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

Sometimes I get a lot of stuff, being in Houston, being in a conservative place, and wearing weird stuff that I wear. People don't get it sometimes. I like it.

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

The religious people in Saudi Arabia are very powerful and don't allow anyone to step on their toes.

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding to other areas.

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night.

In India, public display of affection is frowned upon.

Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical.

I was a big girl considering herself beautiful, which is in conservative Israel had never been seen.