Quotes About Society

Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated.

The corruption doesn't cease, the crime rates don't come down, no matter which party comes to power.

School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

Rather than politics of 'love jihad,' why shouldn't the concept of Love Jihad be applicable in politics?

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

Crying white mothers are ratings gold.

I think, today, television is asking too many loaded questions, pushing further for ratings.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

American society was economically ill-run in the 1980s. Our society has been on a consumption binge. If the American people had a town meeting and said, 'What do we care about posterity? Posterity hasn't done anything for us; we're going to whoop it up now,' that is a rational judgment. But nobody ever did that.

What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.

The truth is that our freedoms are being subtly eroded in an era where emotion and sentiment are prized above reason and rationality.

Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.

From the cradle to the grave, men are getting a raw deal. Men work longer hours, die earlier, but retire later than women.

Belize is so raw and so clear and so in-your-face. There's an opportunity to see something about human nature that you can't really see in a politer society, because the purpose of society is to mask ourselves from each other.

Lives are destroyed by many things. They are destroyed by anti-racism too, as Ray Honeyford's was.

So when you make a disaster movie that is trying to say something about our world, you reach for images that haunt you.

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

People used to see things that disgusted them and say, 'I never want to see that again.' Now we've reached the point where we see things that are disturbing and revolting to us, but we want to see more and more of it.

The shape and composition of the government is important. We haven't reached a point where politics and economics have been totally divorced from each other.

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Whether we buy into the rhetoric or not, one thing has been made clear: Illegal immigration is a problem reaching a breaking point, and something must be done.

Caste is a delicate issue. It's ubiquitous, and we are full of it. We should start to change things from individual level. But when you go to people and deny caste, they may not react favourably. I think if a decisive percentage of people, especially elites, start marrying out of their caste, we may see a casteless India in a generation's time.