Quotes About Society

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.

People always tell me I should run for president, but I don't think they'd give me enough time off to make my films.

We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

"Pop" was a dirty word for a really long time and it feels like that's not the case anymore.

Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.

I don't think the Church has ever contributed anything to anybody, anyplace, at any time.

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.

When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.

There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.