Quotes About Society

Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.

Some of my favourite shows are 'Black Mirror,' a dystopian thriller show called '3%,' 'Ozark,' 'Tyrant,' etc.

The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Political correctness never rears its ugly head independently. It always shows up as a series of actions designed, to this observer, to crush the souls of those blessed with common sense.

If I were old, fat and ugly, I don't know if anybody would be interested in me.

Those of us who have feeling, who are sensitive, who can be affected, need a good shield. Footballers are very young and they're exposed. Even at under-15s, players have Twitter and I'm sure they're already getting insults... it's ugly, it sullies society and football.

We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

As a woman, you feel that you shouldn't want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn't it?

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

The next great technology revolution might be around the corner, but it won't automatically improve most people's lives. That will depend on politics, which is indeed ugly but also inescapable.

Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.

As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.

The bad you see in N.Y.C. is troubling to know when it rears its ugly head.

Nobody wants to pay to see a real chick fight because it's ugly and it doesn't sell.

People are willing to do really ugly things if lots of other people are also doing them.

There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors.

You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation.

One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society.

I want the UK to be a global leader in developing and deploying technology, but I also want us to ensure that the benefits are fairly shared across society.

In the UK, everyone's quite conservative. No-one wants to look like a fan.