Quotes About Society

Our society and media have lost touch with the job of the artist. The job of the artist has been subordinated to the job of the record seller.

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'

It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.

Nobody's got a sense of humor anymore.

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.

A very small proportion of the country's black money is in the movie industry. Because we are written about, public attention is focused on us. Do you think there is no black money in other businesses? With the exception of government servants and others who have tax deducted at source, there are tax evaders in every walk of life.

If dinner needs to be served to the father, if clothes need to be ironed, parents ask the girl to do it, not the boy. Why? Equality needs to begin at home.

I believe in public services.

To put it bluntly, the push for 'college for all' sets up students to fail.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

Sex should not be in the movies and should be in the home, and violence should be in the movies and not in the home.

I wish I were a man. It would make my life easier in this sexist society.

I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

Shakespeare examines how democracy is built.

I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame.

I think women judge other women more harshly, always, which is a shame.

No one dives a dumpster like a rich kid dives a dumpster, because there's no shame.

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.

We've got to change the language of how women speak to women and how men speak to women and how we shame them for the decisions that we make.