Quotes About Society

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

There are a mix of good and bad people everywhere, be it Punjab, Delhi or Haryana.

In a lot of ways, I wouldn't be an artist in another time. I need to exist in a time where high and low art mix easily.

Why is the world that I see around me mixed, and why is the world I see in movies filled with all white people? Why does it have to be like that?

The politics of identity, cancellation, and mob rule are not acceptable to me.

Our mobile devices are so powerful that they don't just change what we do, they're changing who we are.

I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out.

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

It is so common in middle-class families to consider modelling and acting not serious.

We need role models in our society that the youth can look up to because that space is shrinking.

Businesses need to proactively create models that make a difference in society and let everyone else use them, talk about them, emulate them - and build on them.

I thought of Britain as a moderate place. Britain isn't a place of majority madness, we're not like that.

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

London is a modern Babylon.

My difficulty with the whole right-left construct is that I don't think it describes modern politics or the modern choices that people face in the world.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

There are several factors in modern society that contribute to loneliness. One is that we are more mobile than we have been in decades past, which is fantastic in many respects, but also leads to us to move away from communities that we grew up with and got to know over time.