Quotes About Society

I hate all adverts for alcohol. They're evil. All of them.

I think we have a problem with how we treat people and alcohol.

I believe it is my job to do everything I can so that everyone in our society feels safe, feels that justice is not an abstract concept but a fact of life for all Americans.

I hope maybe somehow I won't be in this business all my life, and I won't be one of those women that's trying to, you know, save what she looks like... My work is about something completely different. It's about what's inside.

Government cannot be all things to all people.

When I came to London in 1986, I was amazed at how prudish everyone was.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

American society is still puritanical.

Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.

We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else.

The world can make you very angry.

Man has been adjudged a social animal.

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

Anytime you're telling a story about monsterhood, you're playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation.

I can't imagine London is different to anywhere else - people with cars are always the most popular.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

What's appropriate in America anymore?

I think dating apps are keeping us apart.

Architecture is politics.

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

Have you a mind to marry? You hang a stone around your neck; for if you marry for money, what becomes of our exalted notions of honor and so forth? You might as well fly in the face of social conventions at once. Is it nothing to crawl like a serpent before your wife, to lick her mother's feet, to descend to dirty actions that would sicken swine — faugh! — never mind if you at least make your fortune.