Quotes About Society

To be sure Plato did not favor 'affirmative action' to fill political and military offices in his own society; nor did he enroll women in his school.

If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years.

Cable television is such a part of our society now. Oftentimes, the shows are really good, and you're just like, 'Well, it's worth sitting through the sex and violence because the narrative is so great.'

Oftentimes, my career as a model is based around glamour or creating a fantasy world. That in itself is not a bad thing, as I think art and inspiration has its place in society.

I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days.

Even now, when I go out people are like, 'What are you doing here? Didn't you just have a baby?' But people never ask a male comic when he's out a week later, like, 'Oh my God, you're so irresponsible! What are you doing out? Who is taking care of the baby?'

You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.

I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.

It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.

The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?

I didn't grow up believing that abortion was a good choice for women, but since it was legal, I thought it must be okay.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

We kind of have an ingrained, parasitic society. We kind of think it's okay to eat your neighbor.

It's okay for a guy to be a baddie, but a woman? No, we can't deal with that.

Desire is normal. Attention is normal, and that's okay.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

The song 'Assassins Of Youth'... 'Assassins of youths' is what they used to call drugs in the old days when they first started the anti-drug campaign. And it's kind of an anti-drug record.

When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.

Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.'

I think more and more people are having to look at different ways of childcare. It's not like the old days where just the men worked.

Just because it's been around for centuries, doesn't mean it's cool to be a creepy old man.

'No Country for Old Men' was epic.

I think old people should just be old and go away.