Quotes About Society

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.

Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

If we look at the past two centuries of economic history in Europe and the United States, we see an astounding pattern. Capital will accumulate in a tiny portion of the population, no matter what we do.

As our society tips toward one based on data, our collective decisions around how that data can be used will determine what kind of a culture we live in.

It's tough because, in this day and age, it feels like it doesn't matter who you are or what you're doing. You can never do anything right, so you have to kind of tiptoe your way around sometimes.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

Like so many Americans, I am sick and tired of watching the rapid decline of our culture right in front of our eyes.

If there's one epithet the Right never tires of, it's 'elitism.'

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.

These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

The United States was founded on a revolution that abolished the monarchy, aristocracy, titles and primogeniture. Britain may be able in the future to become a more equal and open society while retaining all of these things. But this has yet to be proved.

Personally, I don't believe in International Women's Day. After all, there's no International Men's Day that we celebrate. These are just titles like Happy Day, Teacher's Day etc. I don't understand them.