Quotes About Society

The Greek people deserve an economy that is not burdened forever by a heavy bureaucracy and a bloated public sector.

The notion of public service has effectively been abandoned. Every political party now buys into business values, and into the notion that by definition business must run things more efficiently.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

As far as my absence from the public eye is concerned, that's because I'm publicity shy - something which is not considered good nowadays.

We act in so many roles to entertain people and they get accustomed to it. So even if we do something for society in real life, they think it's for publicity and are not always ready to accept us in that role.

It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

I favor a system where students in publicly funded institutions make a commitment: if they do well in the private sector, they will revert a certain percentage of their income to the education sector; and if they devote some years to public service, their debt will be forgiven.

If you publish Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, no one will read it but if it's Madhuri Dixit's or Madhubala's autobiography people will come and read it.

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.

Although it was published in 1977, "A Scanner Darkly's" mood is already postpunk.

If you're not the guy who is going to puff your chest out like a rooster and go fight somebody, our society discards you.

If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off.

If a guy works, and he has children, it's good, and he doesn't feel the same guilt about not being there for the children as a woman would. With a woman, there's that pull: 'Oh, I should be home,' when she's at work, and 'Oh, I should be at work,' when she's at home.

America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

We're all about pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, et cetera - I think that's a harmful mythology, that the choices that we make and the things that we do in our lives are not connected to anything else. So I'd like to help to debunk that.

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another?

E! needs to be and really wants to be the pulse of popular culture.

I didn't record 'Pumped Up Kicks' out of a sense of moral obligation.

You need to make people think about society in a less literal and more primal way. It's about using the least amount of sounds to make the most amount of noise and energy, and making a bass stab really feel like you've been punched in the face.

As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.