Quotes About Society

You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.

In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.

Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.

Television is an important part of how we communicate.

When this coronavirus crisis is over, what kind of society will we be? A more important question is what kind of society do we want to be?

My ambition in life is to be associated with a good film. And I feel that a writer has a more important role to play for the society than an actor.

Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

Denying women the right to drive has imposed huge costs on Saudi citizens.

Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.

I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.

Consumer culture needs us to be impulsive, while our political culture fears that we will ever develop discipline.

The reality is that life expectancy has not improved for everyone. In fact, in some cases, life expectancy is actually decreasing.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.

People in the U.S. who feel they need guns or enjoy gun sports of various types, are, in other words, decent, law-abiding, generally honest members of society. Their wish to have guns should be respected.

In the beginning of my career, I read an article about the reason that men always look five years younger than women is because they shave.

In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

I could speak for hours about equality and what needs to change in football and in society as a whole. But in the end, everything comes back to respect.

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.