Quotes About Society

There's a fashion abroad generally to speak the language as badly as possible. I'm of a mind to start a society for the reinstatement of the letter 't' and the banishment of the glottal stop.

It is clear that too many bankers think that laws are for the little people.

I really don't see little girls growing up and thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.'

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

The biggest barrier for women is the thought that they can't have it all.

Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.

Many of the people I know and that you know are very complex human beings, and it's not all about race. Everything isn't a question of race. Everything isn't a question of economics at the very base level.

Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.

I don't know about you, but I certainly feel so battered by seeing people wearing masks. It's all we hear, all we talk about, so that actually when you watch TV, the last thing you want to see all the time is people wearing masks.

You can do a hell of a film if you can understand what it is to be a man in America.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

It just became too much to bear... the pressure of trying to fit into a world that perhaps wasn't really set up for people like myself.

I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative.

Why should only rich men have young, beautiful women? Rich women should have young, beautiful men.

Never have lives less lived been more chronicled.

Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

We live in an 'eventocracy'. This is a new form of democracy where there is nothing greater than the event. Any policy announcement has so many events that people have begun to believe in the arrival of an avatar.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

Society becomes how we behave.

I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.

Culturally we're shown an impossible fantasy of how women should present themselves, how they should behave with men.