Quotes About Society

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.

In the 'era of colorblindness,' there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have 'moved beyond' race.

We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.

The biggest beauty myth is that everyone looks better without makeup. That's not true. Makeup is important.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

American myths have never been colorless.

What is the consequent effect on a society of beings looking for themselves in the myths on the screen? It's safe to say that they have failed us, but I can't help it... I love Movies.

There are a lot of myths about food banks, but the truth is that many people are increasingly having to turn to them just to put food on the table, including many in work.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

If you have a character named Captain America, he is, by default, a political character.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.

When I see a billboard that literally just has five names, and they're all A-listers, I'm just like, What is that bringing to the world that's new?

There's something I want to say, and I haven't been able to articulate it yet, about how it's so rude when people don't admit that they have a nanny.

Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

It's sad to me that the main stage of history is a story of how we became this visually obsessed, extremely narcissistic, extremely concerned about image, culture. At least in the West.

America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones.

Early in my career, I was told I shouldn't try to work in a kitchen, that I should consider serving or managing instead. It was a sad narrative that was given to me, and it came from a society that didn't know better.

I felt free once I realized I was never going to fit the narrow mold society wanted me to fit in.

Obviously I don't hate America. I do believe that we are becoming - and I can only judge it by my lifetime, 'cause I don't know what it was like in the 1800s - but it just seems that as a nation, we are becoming really, really nasty, and not concerned with any kind of truth.

Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.