Quotes About Society

Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.

'Cause movies are human drama, that's it.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.

I prefer social dramas.

I'm drawn to that period, the '50s.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

The issue of infiltrators is as important as that of drinking water, education and health.

Mom-shaming drives me crazy.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

We've got to dumb America up again.

I feel like the world is getting dumber. I don't necessarily think people are stupid, but I think we're getting dumber.

The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.

When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

America is one big dysfunctional family and we are still trying to figure out how to live together.

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

As a black man, you learn at an early age the police are not your friends.

In the very early days of Wham! the attention felt great, but I do wonder how much freedom I gave away by trying to become something I wasn't.

If you earn a lot of money you should pay a lot of tax.

The idea of men earning and women waiting at home for them, is over.

The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go way beyond economics.