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Quotes About Society

Nobody has said to men, It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.
~ Warren Farrell
Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.
~ William H. Macy
You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.
~ Zola Jesus
If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you
~ Haruki Murakami
Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government.
~ Henry Rollins
I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.
~ Indira Gandhi
Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.
~ Irakli Okruashvili
I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.
~ James Blunt
The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
~ James McBride
Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.
~ Jennifer Esposito
You're supposed to look a certain way when you're a celebrity, but I want to take care of my baby, and those two things don't mesh very well.
~ Jennifer Garner
In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.
~ Joan Baez
The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.
~ Joel Silver
I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.
~ JOHN BRAINE
The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
~ John Naisbitt
This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics... or masturbation.
~ Johnny Depp
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
~ Johnny Otis
People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.
~ Jonathan Haidt
This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.
~ Junot Diaz
Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.
~ Katherine Dunn
I think when there's so much information to be eaten up, and so many ways to do it, people cling to groups. I think we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups.
~ Kristen Bell
Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.
~ Lauren DeStefano