Quotes About Society

Political grandstanding might make for great soundbites for the evening news, but it will do nothing to help the people that go to work every day knowing that they're one health emergency away from bankruptcy. It will do nothing to help the hospitals struggling to keep their doors open under the crushing cost of uncompensated care.

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.

It was a shock for me to see that there are obviously more people in Germany with fascist opinions than I thought there would be.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

My opponents are the people who gave up our borders.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.

Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.

We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment.

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

I realized so much of my college years were spent not wanting to be gay. I just imagined how different it would be if I were going through that experience in 2016 as opposed to 1984.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

I challenge the idea that films about rich people are escapism and films about working class people are dour and sad. I find the opposite's the case.

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.

You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'

I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.