Quotes About Society

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

There's no down time any more.

Every time I see niqabs, I feel very uncomfortable because it's the opposite of my idea of opened society.

Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?

If you are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!

I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.

You know we are living in dangerous time when the act of kindness is revered as an act of heroism.

The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

When all the people in the world become technology and technology becomes the people, we shall see a new world!

Notwithstanding how good you are, you shall be perceived as bad by the masses when you take the extraordinary steps that lead to distinctiveness which the masses may regard as bad

You're white. You're straight. You're well educated, healthy and beautiful. Every time is for people like you.

O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!

In time of war the laws are silent.

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time they also create it.