Quotes About Society

I've been to so many parties in England and in America that's exactly like that, where you're kind of, like, seen as Other. When you're just living your life, and you have to adopt the Other in order to understand and navigate the society.

There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.

I grew up in the countryside with the factory here, my house 200 metres away, my grandma's house 50 metres away, in a kind of old-style Italian society where everyone works for the family business, everyone lives nearby, and the people you spend your time with are your family.

During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

Southampton is for sporting rich; Bridgehampton is for nearly rich; East Hampton is for the very rich.

I believe in assigned sex but not necessarily gender. Gender is a learned construct that is detrimental to both sexes.

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

A public is a necessary fiction.

There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

It's hard to ignore the hand that feeds you, and today our communities are far more needy than they've ever been, and governments neither have the will nor the ability in many cases to provide the services that they need to.

What I found absolutely the best thing about comedy is it's a little club. You find yourself part of this strange needy society of people who want to go on stage and make people happy.

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.