Quotes About Society

The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

That leading-man expectation is, sadly, to have all these rippling muscles.

Growing up, and the way that the media portrays, you're supposed to look a certain way. Muscles aren't beautiful. Muscles aren't feminine.

I look like what we have taught society a lesbian looks like. I just do. I have the short hair. I got the muscles.

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.

Many think of the sciences as merely a fund of knowledge. Journalists never ask scientists anything other than what the applications are of scientific breakthroughs. Interestingly, I doubt they ever ask a musician, writer, or actor the same question. I wonder why.

The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

I think that if every Christian acted like Christ, the world would be a better place. If every Muslim acted like Muhammad, according to modern law, they would have to be jailed.

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S.

It was 1989, and the word 'Muslim' wasn't even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

The question is, why do we have Muslims in the country?

We don't hate Muslims, but they have to integrate.

My generation is under-entertained.

In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that.

When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.

My father's generation of Saudi men are more liberal than the men of my generation. But with women, it's the opposite.

My generation of women was the last for whom marriage and a family were the goal.

The generation who will watch 'Not Safe For Work', my generation, don't care who plays a part.

My journey has been a long one and has still got a long way to go. I think we are so used to defining ourselves. That's the way society works within these binaries and it's taken me a long time to realize that I exist somewhere in between and I'm still not sure where that is yet.

I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.