Quotes About Society

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

War is not civilized.

Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

You can't be a superhero or super mom.

The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal - in the eyes of the law - and in the eyes of the criminal world.

If you think about it, just the psychology of the superhero is, 'Because I can, I should protect people, and I should put bad guys away, and I should defend society.' But you're forming your own justice. There's no judge and jury here: you are it. That, in and of itself, is a very complicated way of looking at morality.

Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or in society, in the world. They're people who don't feel guilt. They're people who don't feel fear. I think that most of us feel those things. There's a kind of... They're almost like superheroes. Not to glorify them, but you know what I mean?

As women we're expected to be superhuman, especially black women.

As white people in this society, we are socialized from the time that we're born to see ourselves as superior, to see white people and things associated white people as superior. At the same time, I'm encouraged to never admit to that. I'm taught that racism is very bad and immoral.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.

While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority, and we are fed a steady diet of it 24/7. To not actively seek to interrupt racism is to internalize and accept it.

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

If more people follow their superpowers - and everyone has one - then we're going to be better as a society.

I don't think Luke Cage as a superhero is something that has changed dramatically from the '70s to now. He's a black man going through the same thing as other people of colour - it's just that he has superpowers.

Some girls are just cut out to be housewives, drive SUVs and sing in the shower as opposed to being superstars.