Quotes About Society

The number of people in America killed by firearms is extraordinary compared to other nations, and I don't think we're a bloodthirsty country. We need to look at everything we can do to safeguard our people.

When we invest in our roads and bridges, we are investing in our people and our future.

The most important duty of government is to keep our people safe.

Coming out of college, back to New York, where I didn't really know that many people, I thought our world was very atomized.

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

You can't really ignore what's going on in this planet, in our world, and the way it's all falling apart.

In our world marriage was the best option for any woman. No girl ever chose to have a career unless she couldn't get a man. It was very much a tertiary life.

Comparing Bollywood and Hollywood is like comparing America's market, roads and economy to ours.

There's a little racism out here, always was, and always will be.

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.

Not everything people do is good - people make Coca Cola and some people want it and some people don't, but we don't outlaw it.

If you don't have an outlet, you become a criminal - or misanthropic.

You have an ideal of masculinity to live up to, and then there's everything else on top. You have to be a perfect husband. You have to be in shape. Apart from alcohol and exercise, there are very few outlets for men.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.

Americans have always been inconsistent and kind of fake with outrage, but we've just slipped totally upside-down.

I think our society today, the negativity is at the forefront, so you see all the people that have outrage about this or that.

Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

It's almost impossible to get the outside world to take any notice of homelessness at all.

I don't have to stand back as an outsider to look at society.

You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.