Quotes About Society

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.

In 'Forbidden Love,' my character is a divorcee who has an affair with a young doctor. They are blissfully happy and have everything going for them. But their peers, friends, her daughter, and his family disapprove, and the affair ends.

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.

There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

The newspaper industry was built on the penny dreadfuls.

The humanities are not something that get you a pension and health insurance.

Hell is other people.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Gay people are made and not born.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.

'What will people say?' is a feeling every Indian girl grows up with.

Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

Maybe something is wrong with me, but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.