Quotes About Society

I feel like it's always about how this girl stays thin, or what one girl is doing to another, and it shouldn't be that way.

Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?

I began working as a model because I was born thin. I didn't become thin to be a model.

I was never thin enough to be a proper model and not big enough to be plus-size.

There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.

As a woman,I understand that there is a very thin line between cheap and sexy.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.

When you bring God into politics, very strange things happen.

I'm just trying to make movies simply about life. Naturally, when I'm doing that, horror, violence, and all those kinds of things get mixed in. All those things happen in reality.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

During the Enlightenment, there were brilliant thinkers who realized that, if you assume most people are naturally selfish and you construct the market around that, sometimes it can actually work for the common good. I just think that in many cases, it went too far.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'

There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.

I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.