Quotes About Society

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

Today, Japan is one of the few countries in the world where one hears laughter everywhere.

You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.

Japan used to be an animistic society before Shinto imperialism was established. But most of us still have an animistic sense.

In Japan, we worry too much about what the other thinks.

I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

When Jennifer Lawrence says it's 'dumb' to go hungry to make other people happy, she's saying it with the carefree attitude of a woman who probably will never have to make that choice to conform.

People determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.

I don't think we have to be jerks to make good art either, but somehow we as a society have romanticised that idea.

I mean, you can forget about George Bush or Jerry Falwell. You can't forget about a homeless kid.

It is not only in India but even in the west you have these crazy shows like Jerry Springer' where people come and abuse, they take off their clothes, do everything possible just to become famous and known.

The Yippies, their lifestyle is different from mine. But I consider Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman inspired critics of the kind of society that we have.

If a player has jewelry or a cool car, people in Germany are instantly jealous.

I don't feel that Jewish people have a class.

Over the course of history, many Jews have ultimately embraced Christianity - some forcibly, some in order to advance in non-Jewish society, some out of wholehearted belief.

Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.