Quotes About Society

If I am doing a good show and I am satisfied with it, and can convey a message or bring a change in the thought process of the society, my purpose is served.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

I think gay marriage should be the national law.

When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you—not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen.

Human society is ninety percent muck that won't disperse to the appropriate location that's why I chose the profession of plumber.

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

A "planned economy" destroys Government because when men use force in an attempt to control productive energies, they have no means of knowing real costs, and these costs automatically increase at an increasing rate until the people can no longer pay them.

In this country, the people who affect things the most—how the rest of us think and feel—are comics. It's true. Because a comic needs to understand the big picture in order to fracture it and present it to people so they can see it more clearly. Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

COMMUNISM When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist. Helder Camara

can no longer accept a society in which you are told that there is only one point of view from which politics, and indeed life itself, must be judged.

Imagine if that was the best compliment you ever received. "Wow, you are really normal",' before pointing out that, generally speaking, compliments tend to be more along the lines of 'You are extraordinary', 'You step outside the box', or 'You're amazing'. 'So if people want to be these things, why are so many people striving to be normal? Why are people pouring their brilliant individual light into a mold?

The harsh world unjustly reserved its most severe punishments for women.

His appraisal of the state of the world was a bleak one: "No one speaks truthfully anymore," he writes. "Everything is deceit, lies, cunning, theft, sodomy, wickedness, with no fear of God or concern for the world. O miserable Christians, worse than beasts, where are you headed?

Top hats and frock coats were by 1863 a distinctly modern costume. The top hat had been invented in 1797 by the London haberdasher John Hetherington, who caused a riot when he stepped outside with one perched on his head: children screamed, women fainted, the arm of an errand boy was broken, and Hetherington was hauled before the courts to explain the meaning of his alarming new invention.

In Florence, more than anywhere else, large numbers of people could read and write, as many as seven in every ten adults. The literacy levels of other European cities, by contrast, languished at less than 25 percent.

Jerkiness isn't as respectable as it used to be, not even in L.A. Which is why they had to build Vegas.