Quotes About Society

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.

To me, it's 2016 about to be 2017. I can't believe there's still a racism factor.

Race is a factor in everything.

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.

I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

It is not a cliche to say golf is for the well-off. It is the reality. But the old system which used to make it elite is fading away.

We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

Contrary to what most people believe, fads are made, not born.

In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.

Government isn't there just to administer life support to failing markets. Without the government, many of those markets would not even exist.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.

Every American, and every corporation, should pay their fair share to build the American dream.

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.

American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.

Age is definitely an issue for women in TV. There comes a point - especially if you're a woman - when your career just falls off a cliff. I'm not being self-pitying. That's just the way it is.

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed.

Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.

Women tear each other apart.

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

As women, and as people, we're often forced to choose between pop culture and tearing down celebrities or a show about politics.