Quotes About Society

In my life, I've been able to really examine society in a way most people who aren't outsiders don't get a chance to do.

'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

The 'X-Men' stories are the stories of outsiders: people who don't fit into normal society and are ostracised; it's a metaphor for gender, race, or sexual orientation.

I believe that both Obama and Trump would describe themselves as outsiders.

I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

I feel like it's the last frontier: the weight thing with women. I think that so many women, like, even myself, I'm so mean to myself about my body sometimes, or I can be judgmental of other people for their bodies. I don't know how to get over it.

Overall, we think religion is a good thing. I mean, if we were godless society, we would have many other problems; the communists found that out.

Real politics should work for the long-term and overall interests of the community.

We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking about the government. But we have little ability to even acknowledge everything that exists in the middle, and given how influential politics is on every other part of our life, I think that failure of discourse is pretty corrosive to our overall culture.

Culture in general wants to connect ethical issues with consumerism. And we can see that overflowing into something that is consumed so much, which is sports.

I've always thought that there are many things still left in society that are detached from the sense of ordinary people. I won't overlook them and I will determine what is right before taking bold action.

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

Trans women are conditioned to accept that society sees us as overly sexualized objects - even more so than how society already sexualizes cis women. It's almost as if they don't see us as fully developed human beings.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

Like bankers, top footballers are massively overpaid, but at least you comprehend what they're doing for the money.

When an industry matures, it means it's not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That's the obligation of the multi-national corporation: to put the factory where it can make the widget as cheap as possible. Don't get angry when a corporation does that; we've all bought into this concept. We live in a capitalistic society.

At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.

Feminism is just an overused term and people make too much noise about it for no reason.

I think overweight people are lazy and that they are bankrupting the country.

When you are overweight, you just don't feel good about yourself.

I like movies that project a dilemma of modern men and women who are overwhelmed by the system.