Quotes About Society

Donald Trump got elected because, in his twisted way, he pointed out the huge troubles in our economy and our democracy.

Beating up on public schools is not just our nation's favorite blood sport, but also a favorite conversational entertainment of the well-off - like debating the most recent toothsome plot twists of 'Big Love' - who, of course, have no dog in the fight.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government.

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

The two pillars of feminism are narcissism and entitlement.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame.

I think Americans, as a nation and culture, once something is recognized for a week or two, people kind of forget about.

The approach of recognizing marriage between two people, without limitations, responds to a problem of eliminating all types of discrimination in society.

Marriage isn't about two people; it is the basis for the family. That's why it's unique, and therefore I think society can say we're keeping marriage for a man and a woman.

I think we've got a very two-dimensional view of what masculinity is, of what strength is, what a guy needs to do.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

One of the beautiful things about Tyler Durden in 'Fight Club' is that he seems to understand the implicit vanity and self-absorption that comes with the desire to improve oneself.

I grew up watching 'The Jeffersons' and 'Good Times' as much as I watched The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and 'All in the Family.'

That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.