Quotes About Society

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Hong Kong needs population growth to cope with a rapidly ageing population.

It's so irritating, because male rappers don't have to have a look. A guy can look like a bum on the street, but as a male, people will accept him because he's a rapper. But females, they expect you to have a big booty. They expect you to walk in six-inch heels.

The thing with racism is it's rare you can really prove racism.

People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.

Having women on boards is good for women, good for the economy and good for society. A win-win-win outcome: how rare.

It's so rare to see a woman lose control and also gain it back. Women are always told, 'Oh, be in control of your feelings,' and a woman is never allowed to express her anger without being demonised as being PMS-y.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.

You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.

Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!

There is immense pressure of being caught in the rat race. At such times, I'm glad I have just one child.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

America, the self-described greatest nation on Earth, has the highest incarceration rate on the planet.

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.