Quotes About Society

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so keen on telling us that's the case.

Between Alan Freed in Cleveland and Bob Horn and Lee Stewart in Philadelphia and George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz in Buffalo, they began to find out that white kids liked black music. It was a very significant period of time before I got there.

Our reforms to criminal record disclosure will benefit ex-offenders, but there will a broader, more significant payoff for everyone in society.

In 1817, Czar Alexander I personally founded the Society of Israelite Christians but had less luck defeating Judaism than he'd had defeating Napoleon; gentile serfs and merchants in areas bordering the Pale even showed disturbing new signs of 'Judaizing.'

I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.

During war, the laws are silent.

'The Sound of Silk' will serve as a lens for larger questions about cultural identity in a global society and the potential for individuals to act as catalysts for change.

There has been too much silliness and cliche when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that we have as a society. We are obsessed with youth and denying death.

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.

I've been called fat my whole life. I am fat, so it's kind of silly to get mad about it.

Why does everyone think they need to be a star? It's ridiculous. The celebrity culture is so silly, and the fact that people grow up thinking that it's something to aspire to just seems wrong. I don't mean to bash my life. I love my life; I just think it's not the only way to go.

As individuals, we don't sometimes let ourselves enjoy things that we possibly should because of ways you want to be perceived, which is a silly thing as well.

By never marrying, I ended up never divorcing, but I also failed to accumulate that brocade of civility and padlock of security - kids you do or don't want, Tiffany silver you never use - that makes life complete.

There is no silver bullet for poverty alleviation.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

I enjoy films like 'American Beauty' and want to do similar films that reflect our culture.