Quotes About Society

Teaching is a respectful job. Teachers lay the foundation for society.

One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

Law and order are more fragile than we might think.

When we frame women's choices in terms of extreme work or extreme mothering, women think they have to define themselves in terms of a single goal, everything else be damned.

There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.

In France, it's really different the way you live. It's a non-religious country. The public space is not religious; religion is a private thing.

It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a bargain.

I'm at the point, frankly, where I'd rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max's book in his backpack over someone in sensitive emo-boy clothing, because both are misogynists, only the one with the backpack is more honest about just how scared of women he is.

In L.A., there's a considerably different climate. It's more misogynistic, frankly.

We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.

I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.

Secrecy is never so appealing as in a free society.

We have ways to protect the public when free speech crosses over in hate speech.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

I see the wielding of a pronoun as something that can be freeing for some members of society but a shackle to others like myself.

A state should protect citizens in general and women in particular. And in the 21st Century, every society needs to respect the individual choice of its members to decide freely about their bodies.