Quotes About Society

The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.

To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.

The ruling ideology prefers to talk about individual ethics rather than the capitalist system.

We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right.

You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.

I usually live in my own ignorant, pop-culture bubble, so I don't really know what people are doing.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

I hate to admit this, but before we had a baby I was kind of weirded out by breastfeeding. It looked strange, and I was always like, 'Look away! Ignore it, ignore the boobs in the room, move along, nothing to see here!'

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

Illegal is not a race, it is a crime.

Like other forms of gambling, wagering on the Internet isn't illegal because it's bad. It's bad because we've chosen to make it illegal.

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

Having a financially illiterate society is dangerous, and we have to do something about that.

I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.

This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.

Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.

Our society's dependence on imagery says a lot about our values.

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.

All you see on television are debased images.

We're constantly being fed images and being told what to like and what is good, and for the most part, I think people enjoy living that way. It takes a lot of the thinking out of it.

People see images now more than they see movies.