Quotes About Society

The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported.

It's sort of admirable that America is big enough to put up with the contemptuous self-loathing. Americans are freer than anyone in the world to say and do whatever they like, but when freedom cluelessly turns against itself, it can become a liability.

The French complain of everything, and always.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

There's something Vichy about the French.

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

Some people don't like change. Some embrace it. But the way it's going - not just in football, but in society generally - it's more diverse. People want freshness.

Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

My mum was a lone parent at the age of 18, bringing up a son in the 1980s. The benefits system put food in the fridge.

So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.

I think people are frightened of saying what they think, and I think that's a bad thing for society.

Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.

Ever since Eve gave Adam that forbidden fruit, demonizing and disbelieving women has been the planet-wide policy. You don't need to reach back to the Pleistocene to see the truth of that.

I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.

The American people are frustrated.

What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.

My mother turned 40 in 1973. So in 1970 - when 'The Female Eunuch' came out and Ms. magazine was founded - my mom was 37 with two children, and she was just that little bit too old, and the circumstances of her life were set up in a certain way that for her to fulfill her ambitions and dreams, she would have had to break with the family.

There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.

America should function as a Christian nation.

The crux of our power isn't only in our voice. It is in our economic function in society.