Quotes About Society

Baby boomers don't go out as much, they aren't interacting with each other and they would rather stay home and watch TV. That's the audience for a guy like me, unless I'm doing 'Bad Santa.'

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any interest in our children, and what we leave for our children is not important.

I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality.

The Internet is now the catalyst in our society for growing our economy, engaging in the democratic process, and connecting with one another. It is an information equalizer, and everyone from farmworkers to financiers deserves fair access to it.

Fashion is just an interpretation of the culture around us.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might do some good, but that's not why I do it.

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.

Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

Who could believe such a thing? That it was better to live a life of constant loneliness and emptiness rather than try to fill the void with someone of an "unacceptable" class or clan? That it was better to be alone than try to find someone to love outside the narrow strata of society my parents approved of?

There just seems to be…I don't know, such a lack of courtesy. A lack of respect between people in general and men and women in particular. Everywhere

There is no precedent for women getting their own "everything" and learning that it's not the answer.

In the Depression, when most of them came here, people with brains went to New York and people with faces came West.

Also they have this nervous feeling that anyone with tits like that must be vulgar. Or insensitive. There I sit, reading my Proust and minding my p's and q's and keeping up with current oddities—no slouch more or less—and I see them shrink from my gaze as though I were a tramp.

There's no precedent for women getting their own "everything" and learning that it's not the answer.