Quotes About Society

A lot of French comedy is satire.

'Gulabo Sitabo' is a simple satire on life. It's a genre I have tried for the first time.

I got to tell you, when I wrote 'Adios America,' I thought there was a 10 percent chance of saving the country.

I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

You have to be taxed. Just because you work a little harder to have a little bit more money taken from you, I mean, that's scary. I worked hard for it. Why should I be taxed more than other people?

If we don't at least try to make the future more equitable, most of us will left with simply scraps.

If you think marriage is gonna be easy, don't do it because when there are children involved, you screw up the rest of society.

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

In the late 1950s, the woman's place in society was second-class.

The '50s were a secretive time.

It is not business, it is not government - it is the social sector that may yet save the society.

AAP does secular politics.

You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

I have never had a problem with national service. I am not sure the draft is the way to go about it, but I am positive that you live in a society and you take from this society, which every citizen here does. You owe something back to this country, and that should be paid back in some form of national service.

We owe our children an environment in which they can flourish, and where law enforcement, the justice system, and society as offers them a fresh start, not a jail cell.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

Owing to cultural beliefs, girls have been taught to be small, disappear and not take our full place in society. But that is not what we are meant to be.

I've thought for years that newspapers should all be owned by nonprofits.

We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership.