Quotes About Society

Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry.

God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.

When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?

In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.

I hate you." I love you." You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have." I'm trying not to be.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

For integrity to flourish in society, we have to nurture it - within ourselves, in our children, in our education systems.

We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.

Love is bigger than government.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated.

In the '30s, every day was an event. And, as much as I love that idea, I think nowadays it's nice to have the differentiation of when you dress up and when you don't.

I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

People love pitting strong females against each other.

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E.