Quotes About Society

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?

As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

Seriously though, most films worth their salt will have something to say about the world we live in. Even 'Avatar' claimed that!

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

You have to ask yourself seriously: does this government really want to do things or is it more interested in class struggle?

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.

At some point, someone will come up with an airtight argument as to why they should have a cloned child. At that point, cloning will be acceptable.

I find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.

The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.

I just don't believe that a woman is naturally closer to her child than a man. Not at all.

Coming out of the closet doesn't always mean liberation.

I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.

Men's clothing and women's clothing shouldn't even really be a thing.

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'