Quotes About Society

That is what is happening in America. People see things, but still they've just completely lost the ability to think critically.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

There's a lot of criticism on how an actress is aging. Why do we do that with women? I work with a lot of men who take terrible care of themselves - they drink too much, or they eat too much. We need to allow women to age.

The best critics of America are Americans.

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

I like a nice cross section of society in my restaurants - the stars, the toffs, the working guy.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

As a society, there are times when we need to stand together against indecency and cruelty.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people.

My first book, 'Fast Forward', was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the U.K. is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.

When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

It's a cultural question. Will people want to share cars?

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.