Quotes About Society

Everyone is so into labeling themselves. I don't really put too much into that.

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process.

People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.

Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.

What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.

They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

Crippling student loan debt doesn't just affect those who took out loans to get an education. It harms all of us because we can't have a healthy economy without a strong middle class to stimulate it.

Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

History was invented as a tool, an engineered road down which human society could advance.

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.

We must not forget that culture is the key tool to make society advance and defeat all forms of radicalism.

Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more free.

Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.

Being an actor is a matter of choice that, above all, takes place at an existential level: either you express the conservative structures of society and are nothing more that a tool in the hands of power, or you address the progressive components of this society in an attempt to settle a revolutionary relation between art and life.

To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool in inching us towards some semblance of a more equitable society.

I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.

I use glamour as a tool, almost like armor to confidently take up space, to provoke questions and conversations about society and gender norms.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.