Quotes About Society

The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair is one of the most important and clarifying moments in American history.

I feel that we Germans are spending less and less time talking to each other. And even less time listening to each other.

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

You don't have to get married and have a family, like a lot of women try, to live the American Dream. There's nothing wrong if you're in your 40s and don't have kids and are president of your own company.

There's always an assumption that when the girls get married they don't want to work.

I never thought I would get married. I didn't think I was that type of person.

Some of the reason why you have so many divorces is that we tend to get married, most of the time, not for ourselves, but for others, or for how it looks to others.

A man can be 43, and people will say, 'Oh, he's a cool bachelor, and he just hasn't settled down,' but with a woman, it's, 'Oh, she must have really wanted to get married, but she didn't.' I honestly think that attitude is a little bit sexist.

I don't understand why gay people are so anxious to get married.

I'm the kind of guy who'll go to a courthouse and get married, but for women, it's different. It means a lot to them.

I think, a lot of times as women, we feel pressure from our parents, our friends: we see our friends get married.

Like nearly every female, I thought I'd get married and that would be it for life.

Also, I thought the main reason people get married is to have children. And since having kids had never been of interest to me, I didn't think marriage was necessary.

Trevor and I had been going to awards ceremonies for years. People knew. Look, if you don't get married by age 65, people know something's up.

To be honest, I think it's a fair argument to ask actors not to endorse fairness products. We don't need to be fair in this country, and there's a whole lot of madness about being fair. Many advertisements are projected in a manner that if you aren't fair, you don't get married - and when you get fairer with the creams, you do!

Since I had been little, everybody wanted me to get married.

Trump lays bare a lot of things already wrong with our society. But he also accelerates the process of it becoming worse, when it could be getting better.

I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.

I feel career women should avoid getting married.

A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.

I think marriage is ghastly.

Without meaning to sound anti-men, ghastly women are the closest you get to a male role.

The people who run the giant companies and the government are all part of the same crowd.