Quotes About Society

I really had to go back and remind myself that trusting makes society function on an individual level related to health and on a social level related to economic growth and development.

The more the audience and the society trusts an actor, the more the responsibility increases for the actor.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

My family didn't have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, 'Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?' And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.

The truth is that much of the plastic surgery we see today has a racial or ethnic component because it has to do with inherently racial concepts of physical perfection, like the 'Roman nose.'

The truth is that both groups want to be noticed. Yet we view a man's desire for attention as a natural instinct; with a woman, we label her a narcissist.

One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to deal with. I want to start making films about female rage.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?