Quotes About Society

We've established a world that's binary gendered, and I don't want to be disadvantaged at all. If being male is going to be more advantageous than being female, I'm all about it. I don't really think it's that important.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.

If men disappeared tomorrow, we'd still be having the abortion debate. If men disappeared tomorrow, there would still be racism and conflicts over religion.

Barack Obama being President of the United States doesn't mean racism has disappeared. It's all a process, and we have to be aware that the work never ends.

I feel disappointed with humanity, because they have made people's lives into talking points. People have stopped caring about people's feelings and emotions.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

People thought I was trying to say that women had no say, no rights. I was not saying that. I was saying that women had a role, a duty. When they want to have a say in government - though in Africa they are not expected to do that - they are not discouraged. They can do what they want to do.

It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.

If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation for trouble.

There is no civil discourse left and it is really sad.

Americans have discovered fear.

We often see discrimination on the basis of color and complexion in society.

Funny enough, the most discrimination I've ever gotten as a woman in this industry has been from other women.

'Article 15' prohibits any kind of discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, or religion. My film is about the discrimination we practice on various levels.

It's important to discuss the issues that we have in our country.

Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed.

I don't think I have tried to give any message through 'Mulk.' But I have put certain things on the table which are usually discussed in the living rooms, not in our cinema.

Everyone is going through this ageing process. Whether in their minds or they are discussing it with their friends, they all want to look good and they don't know what to do.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it.