Quotes About Society

Sexual intercourse is the only purely reproductive sexual practice and if it is engaged in by women only when they wish to procreate then reproduction is under women's control. Once sexual intercourse is established as compulsory then women have recourse only to artificial contraception, abortion, and infanticide, to control reproduction and childbearing.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

It is often the victim's fate to be victimized a second time by the moral neediness of his former victimizer. One can chalk up many of black America's problems since the 1960s precisely to this phenomenon. The larger society around us—having acknowledged its abuse of us—wants to take charge of our fate in order to redeem itself, thus smothering us in social programs and policies that rob us of full autonomy all over again.

Thus, in a culture won over by dissociation, conservatism seems to be in association with America's evil past.

An open and (semi-) free society cannot realistically expect to eliminate the risk of indiscriminate violence. The cost in liberty and dignity would be way too high — and the attempt would fail. Moreover, the risk of violence perpetrated by our guardians would not be eliminated but augmented.

Where do you go to get anorexia?

Why don't you admit I've been robbed of my musical career because society can't handle my innate sexuality?

But she'd been wrong about Vig. He wasn't broken. He wasn't destroyed by a cruel society. He was just an introvert with an aversion to shaving. And he liked her. Liked her, liked her.

This time [2016] is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.

The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that will change our lives.

My absolute favorite movie of all time is Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' Nothing compares to it. I have seen it thousands of times and still watch it every few weeks.

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

Our own country seemed more polarized than it's ever been and since the two terrorist attacks of 9/11, religion was in greater disrepute than at any other time in my lifetime.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

The utter destruction of our culture isn't just around the corner. It has been here for some time.

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.