Quotes About Society

Trigger warnings are part of the West's debauchery of self-indulgent victimhood.

Nations are not built by governments alone. The government can at best be a facilitator, and a trigger for society's innate entrepreneurial and creative instincts.

A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

I'm totally fine with myself. It's the other people I run into out there who are so hung up on gender. The way it trips them up is their problem, not mine.

At the scale that Uber operates, we're going to see both the good and the bad that happens in society because we're operating so many trips every single day.

Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

The triumph of economic liberalization has coincided with a sharp increase in income inequality.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.

The PGA Tour has a lot of interaction with our military, and I've grown to have an incredible respect for our troops who are coming home with these horrific injuries, as well as any organization that can not only help them get healed up, but help them get integrated back into society.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.

Automation is great for profits, but it's a real potential trouble area for society.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.