Quotes About Society

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

Every generation thinks the cultural rot during their time is worse than it's ever been. That's not true.

We have been in the process of reprogramming men and the way they are raised for a long time.

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

As the only girl growing up for a long time with only boys, as you pointed out, it seems like I was always surrounded by guys. There was this sense in which my female body was a problem.

I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.

Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.

It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.

Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.