Quotes About Society

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

The New York City police department is more representative of the city it serves than most law firms, university faculties, and media companies.

It's really the old question: Does art inspire life or does life inspire art? Maybe it's a combination of both. But Trump represented something. He didn't create what we are. He comes from what we are. And he's a representative of what we are, whether we like it or not. He's just not our better nature.

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

If we don't start representing women properly on screen now, we're never going to change our opinion of them as a society.

You can't put a gun in the hands of someone who represents a danger to themselves or society.

The 'Bohemian Manifesto' represents those that actually have to step out of society because they cannot join, but then they become the saviors of society because they create the actual possibilities of change.

Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth.

In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

I think I have started to take life as it comes and quite uninhibitedly, without being repressed by the expectations of the society.

Women in Tamil Nadu are repressed. This must change.

The love of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is reliant on the restrictions of Regency culture, their passion is created by repression.

I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

The human race could not go on without reproduction, and marriage creates the most secure environment in which to raise children.

The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.

Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live. As with so many immature individuals of all living kinds, everything they do is excessive and uncoordinated with the needs or constraints of their neighbors... they are reproductive but not productive.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.