Quotes About Society

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

I think that women are afraid to say they don't want children because they're going to get shunned.

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

If people want to legalize a particular relationship, we need to be careful if that kind of relationship has been disapproved for millennia.

Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

If we're in some sort of Hobbesian state of nature, where you just want a strong man who has no compassion Donald Trump is going to do a little better. So, we will figure out what game we're playing.

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.

People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television.

While you're pregnant you're made to feel not beautiful or sexually viable. You're either sexy, or you're a mother. I didn't want to have to choose, so I challenged that.

A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.

Everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

But history teaches us nothing new. And should I choose to look ahead, to what is yet to come, why, I see a future made most toxic, born on the day society sets the value of wealth above that of lives.