Quotes About Society

This Oscar Pistorius business is interesting. There is this cult of carrying lots of guns and being ready to shoot somebody. There were people I knew had guns and carried them openly around Johannesburg. It is frowned on now to carry a gun, but Pistorius and co. got away with it.

One of my first real parts was 'Crash' - that won the Oscar.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

Like the way we get to know about the society of Korea, Iran, and other countries through their films, people will get to know about our country. Our films are a mirror of our society.

One of the flaws in the American dream is that there isn't as much of a safety net as you may get in other countries.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

If you live the way others want you to, you are called a nice guy. If you live the way you want, you are called selfish.

When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.

Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make them harder to crash.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Our community of contagion really is a world community.

We should be on the forefront on this focus on justice, and do all we can to care about our community, to care about our society, and to make our communities a much better place.

We've got to help our community out. We've got to help Baltimore out, because it's a lot of things that have been handed down in our society that we're dealing with.

The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.

I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.

Our people want jobs. They don't want a safety net as a way of life.

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.