Quotes About Society

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.

The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren't hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such a Twitter-oriented society with radio talk shows, TV talk shows and social media - what you are missing is the authentic, unfiltered aspect of who these people are.

The ancient Greek philosophers were blonde and blue-eyed and, even then, talked about how their race was mixed with others and how this affected their society negatively. When there were no more natural blondes and no more blue eyes in Greece, they incidentally stopped producing great philosophers.

What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?

I don't know that there's more bullying or whether it's just more talked about. It seems to me that possibly that there's been a lot of bullying all the time, but at the moment, it's something that people are talking about.

From the very beginning, I've talked about how we're going to strengthen the middle class in this country.

I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about.

The rise of women and feminism is well documented. What is equally fascinating - and less talked about - is the impact this has had on men.

Good talkers are only found in Paris.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

'In Another Time' talks about our addiction to technology.

'Iraivi' is about women, men, and their priorities. It talks about women's freedom, how men look at it, and how women use it. It's neither preachy, nor is it about women's empowerment.

'America has no culture!' is a phrase that we've all heard many times in our lives. As is often the case, a lie repeated often enough becomes an assumed truth (kind of like the tall tale of Janeane Garofalo being a comedian).

I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and angular. But now, society has bought 55 years of my marketing 'Carmen,' and I'm considered beautiful. I hope that empowers older women.

Who doesn't want to be, like, five inches taller whenever they can be? If boys could, they'd be wearing heels.

Growing up as a comedian the most influential person on me was Jon Stewart. He showed that comedy could have a real tangible effect on the world. He showed that comedy could move the needle of society and that a comic can do real things and make a real contribution.

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child.