Quotes About Society

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

Given the right conditions any society can turn against democracy.

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

The conflict is not between the people and the antiwar movement, but between the people and the government.

We grow up, and we need to confront a society to be fit in.

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.

Most Russians actually were living much better by the end of the 1990s than by the beginning of the 1990s. Most Russians were no longer confronting food shortages.

I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal these days is confusing.

It's challenging to find self-love when there's confusion and you're living in a world that's seemingly very binary and black and white.

When you grow up as a woman, there is that confusion where you think, 'I need to be this or that to fit in.' Now, I'm very much like, 'No, this is what I am.'

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

I think Roosevelt had four terms, didn't he? I think we should go back to that, and we should go back to four years for a senator, four years for a congressman, and I think we'd see a huge change in our society.

Look, mass and class is just a matter of conjecture.

The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.

Government is connected to everything we do.

I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.

As soon as I have the idea, I need to create as quickly as possible, because it's what's going on in society, and that's what connects me to my audience.

Listen, the word 'party' has taken on a negative connotation in our country these days. It's really bumming me out.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

Lowered crime is a precondition to economic revival, not its consequence.

I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.

Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.