Quotes About Society

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

It's just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.

I've been fat my whole life and pretended I don't mind. But I do mind. It's really stupid that I've gone on being greedy and fat.

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

Some people criticize North Koreans and ask, 'Are they stupid? How can they believe those ridiculous things?' But I say, It doesn't matter if you're smart: if you were born in North Korea, you would be exactly like us. We don't know what freedom is. We have never enjoyed it.

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

The reality of America is mass-market stupidity.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

For the 'Try' video, I didn't prep or starve myself and over-exercise. And then I didn't get my nails done. I didn't get my hair done. I didn't get a facial. I didn't have a stylist.

People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.

In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

Live-in relationships are common these days; that's why so many movies are being made on the subject.

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.