Quotes About Society

Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly - because it's sort of like you're supposed to once you become a wife and mother. That's a generalization; that's what the mentality has been.

If humanity was still in the feral state, we wouldn't have any need for these huge conurbations that we have now, that have turned us into a different bunch all together. In the feral state we would be much more secure, much more familiar with each other, much more mentally well-balanced.

In this country, we've gotten away from institutionalizing and we've moved toward assimilating and drugging the mentally ill.

There is nothing compassionate about abandoning the mentally ill to the streets and making the rest of us live in their bedlam.

The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.

California's a mess.

The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

There aren't any messages in my social protestations.

Our entire lives, we're inundated with media and messaging that tells us that to be incarcerated is to be criminal and to be criminal is to be a bad person.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

In Vanity Fair, everyone messes up.

When people start messing with their foreheads and can't lift their eyebrows, that's weird.

There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don't feel like working out any more, so you don't want to keep yourself fit any more, but that's your decision. Why should you be judged for it?

Oh, I live in London. So, whether I like it or not, I am a member of the metropolitan elite. If I were anywhere else in the country, I'd hate me.

Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.

For Mexicans, corruption is not a deal breaker.

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

Mexico cannot put up with this scenario of death and kidnapping.

You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are involved in every part of American society. That's why they have to start being represented in Hollywood, because an 'Americano' can't walk down the street and not see a Latino.

You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.

Miami has a big Argentinian, how you say, society, living here, so I meet them everywhere.