Quotes About Society

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff.

America in 2016 is on the path to becoming what Germany was in 1867.

I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.

Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.

Cinema has the power to change the society. Through my films, the kind of characters I have played and will play, I am trying to do my bit in changing the patriarchal mindset.

I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.

I think every industry is a male-dominated industry. Whether it is Tollywood or Bollywood or India as a whole, it is male-dominated. We stay in India, and it has been patriarchal society.

There is no denying the fact that we live in a patriarchal society, and Bollywood is a patriarchal industry for sure. And it is not too fond of women with opinions.

Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.

We live in a very masculine society, a very patriarchal society, still. So we also have the benefit of the experience of that society. We're not coming from 'women's world' into filmmaking, we're coming from 'the world.'

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.

To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency.

It's only that we live in a patriarchal society, and therefore, the word 'feminism' has to be used as a counter to patriarchy. But feminism is about being equal. The word used should be 'equalist,' as it is about all humans being equal and respecting each other for that.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.