Quotes About Society

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.

The U.S. is one of the hardest-working cultures in the world.

I feel like there's always a lot of curiosity about what happens in America.

What I do know is our state and country is currently backwards and upside-down, and we all are to blame in one fashion or another.

That's the thing with social media: it's a gift and a curse. It's cool on one level, but it's also bad.

English accepts more curses than any other language, and I soon learned to curse with the commoners.

Hardly anybody realizes that the first couple of chapters of 'Coming Apart' were basically a recapitulation of the argument in 'The Bell Curve.' That's how little people focused on 'The Bell Curve's' real message.

We urgently need to address the assumption bound up in our employment laws and custody arrangements that women are the 'natural child carers' and men don't really want much to do with their children.

We've always been interested in the commentary on politics and society and how comedy always sort of cuts that with a nice laugh, and the perspective it brings.

We are always told that with women's rights and opportunities for women there's been constant progress, and it isn't true. It works in cycles.

England's just very cynical. Like I am. Like we all are.

Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.

I think that the Me Too movement, which in some ways has been very good, in other ways, as with everything else, has been very damaging. Because really it has immobilised men. It has really prevented men from being men.

We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.

When rooted, you observe how systems actually affect people.

We should all agree that we should repair roads and bridges and water systems.

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.

I remember my dad always complaining about getting pulled over. I remember the differences in school systems. I remember seeing police officers, not knowing their names, and knowing that they were there not to protect us, not to serve us, but to watch us.

I've always been bothered by systems that don't work for everybody. It doesn't mean we're all equal. I am not naive about that. But we should have a more inclusive society.

If our society was a lot wealthier, I think we'd also probably have better education systems - this is pretty intuitive, I think, to make as a claim.

The degree to which society creates wealth, I think, is largely determined by government and financial systems.