Quotes About Society

In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.

Everything is politically correct nowadays.

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.

I don't think we're politically correct when we're private. I don't know what 'politically correct' means.

I think Black Lives Matter has some really thuggish elements in it. Look - at the risk of being incredibly politically incorrect, but I guess that's my job - I think that all lives matter. Not least black lives.

In Pakistan, if you have to become a cricketer you have to be a politician first.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

We get the politicians we deserve and the environment we deserve.

I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.

Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.

Life is challenging enough without politicians to confuse us.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

Politicians are the same everywhere.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.

Politics is applesauce.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.