Quotes About Society

The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.

If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.

I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.

'Dear Society' really is my letter to society where I express the anguish I've been caused from such an image-based industry and culture we live in.

We live in a culture built on debt, so we are encouraged to have no self control.

Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.

On my debut album, I wrote a lot about women and their roles in society.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

It's easy to say, 'I'm anti-capitalist,' or, 'I'm anti-Western decadence,' without having to be challenged about what that actually means, or how you might go about reshaping society to make it better.

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

I believe the role of the government is too big. Society must be more decentralized.

It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.'

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

I am deeply concerned about America.

With 'Kanchivaram,' I have tried to study why the dream of an equalitarian society was defeated by an individual's aspirations.

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

I think that's a place where we are, as a society, finally starting to get to now: where your sexuality doesn't have to define you - and you don't have to define it.