Quotes About Society

We nonchalantly expect that next year's smartphone will be faster and better than this year's, yet we struggle to imagine that society and our lives could progress at anything like the pace at which technology advances and we meekly accept it when things go backwards.

People seem to think that, by the time you hit 45 or 50, you might as well just pack it in and call it a day.

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

It's not the most relatable thing for working moms to have freshly painted claws all the time.

The thing about sexiness is that it's been painted as evil.

I feel like every piece of art is a mirror of what's going on in the present time, because the artist - a painter, a sculptor, a filmmaker - will be affected by what's around them, so it seeps into their work.

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.

Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization.

I always felt that people found women more attractive if they were tanned and there are some parts where I'm so pale, I'm blue and see-through.

For years I hated being pale.

While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered.

I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably.

I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills.

I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.