Quotes About Society

Trans women, and women in general, have so many constraints placed on our bodies. As women, we are told not to show our bodies, and as trans people, we've been told not to exist.

I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

The fact you have to pay 50p to use the loo in some places is the root of the world's issues.

The fact is that we are, compared to most other places, a very liberal country.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.

When you're a kid, helping an old lady across the street is kind of cute. But when you're an adult, it's just plain creepy.

The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.

The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't just fly planes; he was in charge of the Royal Air Force.

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

We see so much violence in films, whether it is Bollywood or south films. People are shown blowing up each other onscreen. It's like a seed that is planted and you keep feeding it with small doses. It's cancerous and does affect society.

A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.

I've never been interested in changing my face. I hear of those glycolic peels and the Botox and plastic surgeries, and I am just, like, 'Oh my God.' I just could never do that.

I can't help the way I look. What am I supposed to do, put a plastic bag over my head?

The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day.

I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.