Quotes About Society

It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.

I think that women are raised to believe that they're supposed to want certain things, and so you feel like you're supposed to apologize when you don't want those things.

I think wearing less makeup can seem a bit scary for some women because we get so used to seeing ourselves look a certain way.

The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.

Even if I weren't in Hollywood, I would feel pressure to look a certain way.

What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy.

There's a lot of pressure on women to look in a certain way. It's not easy to live in a world that objectifies women.

As a woman, you're expected to behave and model yourself in a certain way, but that's not right for everybody.

As a girl, the pressure on you to look a certain way is very high. I try to resist that scrutiny.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

I think that we are so challenged as women to be everything and do everything and make it look easy.

It makes sense for social scientists to become more involved in policy because many of society's most challenging problems are, in essence, behavioral.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

If you're not married, chances are you think a lot about you.

Bullying has changed a lot through the years.

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

There is so much restlessness and chaos in the society, and that's what music depicts.

I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.

Small charities deserve a bigger political voice and politicians need to hear us. Many of us are working on the margins - not of the third sector, but of society. In an age of austerity, our experience and policy advice has never been more important.

It was quite a macho world I grew up in, but it was always cheeky and funny, and the women were the ones in the background that were really in control.

I can't understand for the life of me why people would cheer when somebody gets hurt. I guess that is the sick world that we are sometimes in.

Chicago's one of the most segregated cities in America. Everybody lives in their own silos and vacuums.

Everyone has material about cats, and everyone has material about family and what they think about their government or childhood.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.