Quotes About Society

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.

We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

The fundamental dogma of Modernism - that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow - has created a throwaway society of disposable objects. That is sick.

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

We didn't really grow up in a gendered environment. We didn't have a hierarchy. My family is fearless. They truly believe that they have something to contribute to society and that it is an obligation as humans. I try to embed in my children that they have something to contribute. And that you give because you have to, not to be appreciated.

There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion.

Earlier, when actors aged, they were never, ever to be seen again; but times have changed for the better. Now you don't have to go into oblivion just because you've crossed 40.

Feminists are now amongst the most obnoxious bigots.

Let children come across good as well as bad things. MTV is unnecessarily criticised for dishing out obscenity.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

I will continue to make films to express my thoughts that come from my observations, from the society we live in.

From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.

In this country we're just obsessed with making people celebrities before they've even done anything, which I think is just shocking.

We know that the British public are obsessed with class.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.