Quotes About Society

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.

Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.

America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.

There's nothing wrong with taking yourself out of the dating pool. You don't need to be in a relationship because that's what society expects of you or because your grandmother thinks you need to be married by a certain date. Those days are over. Instead, take a step back and say, 'I'm OK alone.'

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.