Quotes About Society

I think the thing with 'Rise Up,' something that really does bug me, is that America has become very divided.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

Politicians are dividing us based on caste lines.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

I've spent a lot of years confused. Am I straight? Am I bi? Is there something wrong with me that I'm not attracted to girls? Everyone's always expecting me to be gay. I'm like, 'No, I love men.'

I believe that any society that allows the creation of legitimate wealth expects that the wealth be used for its benefit.

I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.

Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

Exploding crime is not something that rights itself.

Affective exploitation is crucial to late capitalism.

All art is exploitation.

If we created a society based on love, it would be a society without exploitation.

Well, being a black man in America and growing up in this society, my view of the justice system is pretty much set. I've been exploited and abused by it myself, so I feel it's broken, it's biased.

I like to explore different ideas of race, how the concept of race has evolved in the country. It's one thing I enjoy talking about, but I don't feel compelled to talk about it.

Utilitarianism is a philosophy from the olden days exploring the idea that whatever is best for the majority is the fairest.

I don't see many explosions or ten-car crashes in the course of my life, so I don't put them into my movies. I would love to live in a society where 'My Dinner with Andre' made $100,000,000. Then I would be in the mainstream. I could do that stuff easier than I could do 'Meatballs.'

The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.

Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed.

The rise of Donald Trump has exposed a deep chasm in America between the haves and have-nots.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.

At the end of the day, makeup comes off whether you're a man or a woman; why discriminate against men, when makeup is such an amazing form of artistic expression, just because society says it's not 'normal?'