Quotes About Society

Zombies have always had a lot of built-in social commentary.

If you look back at a film like 'Dawn of the Dead' - You can either watch it as a straight-up genre film and have fun with zombies being shot, or you can look at it as a metaphor for consumerism. Or a metaphor for the Vietnam war.

It used to be that kids used to drive to school, they might have their hunting rifle in the back of their truck. Principals kept a gun in their office. Coaches might keep a gun and their office kids were protected at school. But Joe Biden passed gun-free school zones, and we were for the first time unprotected.

'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.

I think whenever you transform from normal light-hearted characters, to characters which might be out of your comfort zone or less relatable, that is double the work and commitment required to understand the society that character comes from.

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.

There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

We now know that gun-free zones, though well intentioned, do not prevent attacks.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

No man can have society upon his own terms.

Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold, they go to the theatre instead.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways; but even if it won't do those things, it remains the least constrained society on earth.

America and its demons, Europe and its ghosts.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

The best work, and of greatest merit for the public, has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

The government is concerned about the population explosion, and the population is concerned about the government explosion.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.