Quotes About Society

When fathers are not present, government becomes the 'baby daddy' and conservative social values are harder to pass on to the next generation.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Why can't ladies like nice guys?

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

It's really, really tough being a woman. I think about getting work done all the time. Look at Nicole Kidman - her face is completely done.

Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.

If you go to America, so many club nights finish at 1 A. M. and it's so lame.

In the eighties, we had the ladies who lunch, the power lunch - everything was power. At the beginning of the nineties, things changed.

Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.

Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze. They don't see themselves anymore.

The language has changed. When I grew up and watched the campaigns of John Kennedy, even with Richard Nixon, there was a lot higher level of civility. Now we describe a disagreement as an attack.

Nudity is no big deal as a German. It's all rather normal and boring.

Empowerment of women is the empowerment of the nation. No household, no society, no state, no country has ever moved forward without empowering its women.

There is no country in the world with nil crime.

I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

Listen, I'm extremely lucky. I can't complain at all. I've had a very good go at it. But there is no doubt that as a woman it gets harder as you get older. I don't think it's so hard for men - that's the same in a lot of industries.

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

One of my favorite movies is Bette Davis in 'All About Eve,' and it is shocking there was no pressure on her to be likable.

There's no pressure on me to be a particular weight. But I loathe being renowned as a 'larger' model. It makes me cringe.