Quotes About Society

Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.

A woman needs a man, more than a man needs a woman. We can thank prostitutes for that.

How does it feel being a woman's weakness? I mean a real woman. I mean a real weakness.

When I was at university, I did essays on political theatre. And it was really frustrating that the ideas weren't reaching the people they were talking about. Standup is the one place where you are talking to every level of society.

The thing that's gotten me everywhere in my standup is talking about my family. I started doing it back in high school. I don't think our society looks at marriage and family enough. I think we've gone off course.

It used to be you could just write vaguely conservative things while running a Starbucks - now, you can't.

There's an incredible amount of loneliness that comes with child stardom because you're isolated from your society.

People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.

What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.

The way my body works, people are always going to stare at me. It's just human nature.

I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.

The stark reality is that crime happens in communities of color.

I think, in America, for a long time you had groups that wanted to be stars more than they wanted to make music.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

One of society's thorniest problems is that children from poor families start school lagging badly behind their more affluent classmates in readiness.

Because of both hipster culture and Facebook culture, the human race is starting to resemble a school of hairy piranhas.

If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that's when you become the enemy.

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.

Imagine a world, if you will, where crime does not exist. A startling proposition that seems outlandish, but our imaginations, of course, need not be bounded by the rules and restrictions imposed by realism. It would be a world, one might suppose, where equality reigned, where the thought of violence was so alien that it need not be practiced.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

I start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent - substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.

There is a glass ceiling for the Indian startups. If I want to meet the PM, it won't be as easy as a foreign guy coming to India. I understand that dynamic, and we need to make sure government sees us as major contributors to society, which is not full there.