Quotes About Society

Our entire linear and accumulative culture collapses if we cannot stockpile the past in plain view.

Sadder than destitution, sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honour of sharing or disputing each other's food.

A good society is a society which believes that it is not good enough; that it is the task of the collectivity to insure individuals against individually suffered misfortune; and that the quality of society is measured by the quality of life of its weakest, just like the carrying power of a bridge is measured by its weakest pillar.

Our vulnerability is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

Eleanor Rigby Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been Lives in a dream Waits at the window Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for?

Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.

Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

There's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

Reality shows aren't for overly educated people.

Now we've gotten accustomed to reality shows where the goal is to see people acting foolish.

I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.

But reality television is here to stay.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

Reality TV has taken over.

Reality TV rots people's brains.

I don't like reality TV. I don't want to look down on people.

In America , there's a just-add-water reality TV world in which people expect to get their Warholian 15 minutes of fame.

I just don't like reality TV.

I cannot believe that people really sit and devote hours of their lives watching reality TV like 'Big Brother.'

I'm not a fan of reality TV.

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.