Quotes About Society

Every American has a right to food, housing, and health care - and we can afford to provide it if billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there's a limit to how far we can take that.

I couldn't believe I was homeless and working in Harrods. How many people must be going through this in London?

At the end of the day, you're just another person in society. It doesn't matter how much fame you have. It doesn't matter how much money you have.

There is a role for government, but no matter how much money the government spends, it will never be able to take the place of parents and strong families.

Think of how much time is spent looking and applying for jobs. Some of those who have read my book on the precariat have told me they have applied for thousands of jobs. This is scarcely leisure; it is work.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people's lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.

Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy.

TV and social media has such as huge impact for what we think is normal and what is OK. And that's for good and bad a lot of the time.

The BBC is a huge part of the nation's cultural life.

Both Frankenstein and the Hulk are looked at as horrific, but they're just trying to find their way, like all of us.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

Politics runs in every human being, and so does music.

We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!