Quotes About Society

There's nothing better than to be rootless cosmopolitans who seamlessly merge into whatever society. That's the greatest thing human beings can aspire to. Whether forced by duress, Jews became perfect modern human beings. After the Holocaust, one doesn't really mourn for that - it's too disturbing, seems like a mistake.

There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.

Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement.

The hippy movement was a failure.

Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.

I choose my films carefully. I have done movies that are sensitive, which deal with some issue and are a mirror of society.

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

As a country, we should be moving forward, but instead conservative lawmakers keep dragging us back.

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.

I think the killers get far too much attention.

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.

There are no more liberals They've all been mugged.

Britain is multicultural and it will become more multicultural, not less, and you have to think about who is on your team.

The concept of multiculturalism is difficult to make fit with a democratic society.

Multiculturalism is a white people joke.

We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.

Extreme multiculturalism... is not the way to build this country.

Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.

'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things. Funny ironing board covers - I hate them.