Quotes About Society

In the U.S., society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.

In a patriarchal society like ours, women have to fight hard for a seat at the table. Boys are privileged over girls from birth. Equal opportunity and access for both girls and boys must become the norm.

Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

I think people used to read 'War and Peace,' and now they don't; now they sit around with their tablets and watch 'Downton Abbey' and 'Breaking Bad' or whatever, and they want the things that they watch to be better so that they can feel better about themselves for watching it.

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As far back as I can remember, there's been a double standard between men and women. I think it's time that men get equal time in terms of nudity.

Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.

The number one taboo for boys is to be feminine, so for someone to not only override their internal directive but society's directive is mind-boggling and heroic. It's courageous.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.

Partly what I'm writing about is the way taboos get toppled.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you don't sit down and have a conversation about what you did in bed last night with your friends. Despite the ubiquity of sex, it's still a taboo when it comes to day-to-day conversation.

It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.

There's this huge taboo around talking about money that we have as a society.

There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.

I think it's a little bit taboo to have a coming-of-age story where a girl explores her sexuality. That just doesn't happen a lot.

We've been going through a massive thought evolution and many taboos have been broken.

Wanting money has been made so taboo. We're not allowed to talk about it or admit we want it, and yet we use it every single minute of our lives.