Quotes About Society

In 'Fugly,' I play a very middle-class guy with whom anyone can relate. At the same time, playing such characters is not as easy as it sounds.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

I saw in my life what pushed a lot of people to drugs was being an outcast to society, so being gay I related to that.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.

The narrative related to economics is, I think, very well understood even by the common man.

I've never been a straight guy, but it certainly seems that being one is exhausting. Every part of a straight guy's day is somehow related to him letting people know that he's straight.

As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'

Shakespeare wrote about what was happening during the time; it still relates to us now.

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

An all-girls school, when you have 800 girls from the age of 11 to 18, you would think, should be a prime opportunity to really inject a sense of confidence and power. And instead, we were very much taught in relation to men, in terms of what the brother school would think of us.

The idea of capitalism and the relation that black people especially have to capitalism is something that's interesting to us.

What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that you were colour-blind.

I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them.

Mike Brown wasn't about race relations, nor Trayvon Martin or even Hurricane Katrina for that matter. It's about trust.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a little bit humiliating.

The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'