Quotes About Society

I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.

Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture we're involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification.

People often think of America as a classless society, but, of course, that isn't true. Within immigrant communities, there's an enormous distinction of class, depending on who your parents are, and that kind of thing comes out really quick in things like marriage and interpersonal relationships.

Society is so quick to encourage women to see each other as competition, but I think it's important we celebrate and embrace the pieces of our identity we share with others.

Football is business. It's all about being quick, quick, quick - nobody has any patience nowadays. But then again, that is how things are in normal life, away from football.

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

Once you have a kid, it's amazing how quickly people ask, 'So are you going to stop at just one?'

Many people in the intellectual elite are very scared of shouting. They insist on very quiet murmurs.

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.

Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda.

When it comes to having children or not having children, I don't think we realise how many women have to deal with things quietly.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.

This idea of 'cool capitalism' is still capitalism. It doesn't matter if Elon Musk quotes Nas.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.