Quotes About Society

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

Contrary to the fears of some pundits, the ascent of women does not portend the end of men. It offers a new beginning for both. But women's progress by itself is not a panacea for America's inequities.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.

You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.

I really believe our society has this propensity to punish.

More women than ever are having babies at the peak of their careers. When will we stop punishing them for it?

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

Capital punishment is an appropriate punishment for rape.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Punishment' is the classic. Where you have the crime, and its consequences are the story, but considering the crime and the consequences makes you think about the society in which the crime takes place, if you see what I mean.

I don't want to live in a society where we ask sporting leagues or place of employment to dole out harsher punishment than what the criminal justice system would.

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.

We have moved beyond the point of trust being simply a key factor in product purchase or selection of employment opportunity; it is now the deciding factor in whether a society can function.

There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.

The U.S. is not pure capitalism. In fact, there's no place for pure capitalism, unregulated capitalism. We have a regulated system.

A society based on a market economy which decided that people should only be allowed to take up senior positions in business, administration and the professions purely on merit would have to abolish the main mechanisms for taking up the top positions in society: inherited wealth, tax havens and private education.

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted.

'No means no' is puritanism.