Quotes About Society

Competition in politics is just as important as competition in everything else.

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.

It's very hard to complain about society if you don't get involved.

My complaint is that Americans drive me crazy, and the politics drive me crazy.

We live in a very complex world.

The world is a complex place.

I feel it's important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.

It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.

It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're also supposed to be able to write characters and scenes in a way where it's just a matter of fact, a component.

To say that Wi-Fi is a critical component of Internet access in today's always-connected society doesn't do it justice.

I compose for the common man, for our epoch.

I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them; I watch how people behave around them. That's becoming more difficult to do because everything is around them.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

Left, right, populism... all are meaningless concepts.

Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn't have in the '60s and '70s.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.