Quotes About Society

I think design is the expression of its time and culture.

A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not.

A society is only as great as the values that it enshrines as part of its ethos. A society is only as great as the extent to which it is willing to defend its identity.

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

I like America to some extent.

Art does, to some extent, follow economics.

Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

Trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

We live in a time of extremes. People think that, on a scale of 1-10, if they're not at a 10 for happy, they're not happy.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

Without hope, the very fabric of our society will fall apart.

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

Community banks are a crucial part of our economy and the fabric of our society.

And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.

Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.

American democracy has two faces.

I feel weird when I go to the movies and everybody's faces are perfect.

As I've been saying for decades, as long as racism exists in society, it will exist in all facets of society. Until we eradicate it from society, football will be like any other industry.

It's strange that a little facial hair causes that much excitement.