Quotes About Society

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

When you start dictating culture, money gets involved and people take notice.

It is scarcely a mark of intellectual profundity to have noticed that our society is big.

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

I've always noticed that girls cry way easier than guys do.

I've noticed women my age and a little younger, anywhere from 35 to 50, saying, 'Who would want to bring kids into a world like this?' Or, 'I don't want to spend my life that way. I want to do my artwork.' And they're very unapologetically stating this.

You never see a teaser for a film on television that doesn't have someone running around a corner with a gun. Have you noticed that?... I think Hollywood has as much responsibility for gun violence as the National Rifle Association.

Have you noticed that they write parts for mute women but not for mute men? It must be a masculine dream: a woman who can feel and hear but not talk!

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.

The notion that a company would give up on this nation to get a tax break isn't going to sit well with the American people.

Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.

There's this notion of women's bodies being out of control - so out of control that men don't understand it at all.

The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out their pro-Christmas crusade.

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

Let's cast aside notions of red counties or blue counties and recognize that these are artificial divisions.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can do any job I want - but I think chivalry has been lost a little bit.