Quotes About Society

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

I never had a desire to be famous... I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses... You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that.

I was 49 kgs in 'Viva' and I was fat shamed everyday.

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contrast, only start to feel fat only when they can no longer fit into a foreign car.

Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

I'm not fat. There's a difference between being big and being fat.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

Most Americans, I don't think, could fathom the society that I grew up in. It is a completely different philosophy from America's. You are basically told what you can be by the educational system.

The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

In the Matrix in which Americans live, nothing is ever their fault.

One of my biggest fears when I see really bad people on T.V. is that I don't know how they got there.

I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

I feel that cinema can't change society or bring a revolution. I'm also not sure of cinema as a medium of education. Documentaries can be educative, not feature films.

Society and government at all levels - the state level, the local level and, of course, the federal level - really needs to redouble its efforts if we're really going to make a difference in combating autism.

I want to feel good about paying taxes.

And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.

At the birth of society and civilisation I find a religious landscape littered with feisty female deities who make wisdom their business.

Stop trying to be men. Let's be women. And let's let men be men. Let's empower them to be men, because I fell like they're falling away.