Quotes About Society

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.

We've sussed that we've paid all this money to watch ourselves entertain ourselves. We have more members of the public on TV than on C&A's CCTV.

Everybody is entertained to death.

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.

It was very enticing to become a yuppie, but I didn't want to do that.

I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound.

It is blatantly apparent that true entrepreneurs will never be accepted in the public arena.

We've entrusted our lives to people who know nothing about life.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

I'm not a politically-charged person. I don't want to be. I don't want to talk about politics and I don't want to sing about politics, but if you're talking about environmental issues then you can't talk about one without the other.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

Everyone should have equal opportunities and equal rights, but you can't even have an opinion without somebody going off on you. That's what's wrong with this world today.

We are all about the equality through society and sport.

People just like to talk about equality, but it is difficult for them to see any change.

There was a time when Prakash, our daughter Disha, Vinod - who I was seeing then - and I went out to dinner. People thought it was very strange. But I have always felt if you can't work out one equation - the man/woman one - you don't have to lose out on the person altogether.

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

I think it's impossible to be a young black male from the South, born to an era I was born in, and not have a clear sense of what race really means in the country.

For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.