Quotes About Society

The process of coming out is normally very disappointing. It's not that people react badly to it - they really don't care.

I feel amused when women in Indian films are unfailingly shown screaming at their kith and kin who are involved in nefarious activities. Please, let's get real! How can a woman react so dramatically to something that has been happening under her nose ever since her marriage?

Most parts for women have them reacting to something a man has done. Women never instigate any action; they only react it. We women have become accustomed to doing that.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I came out in a newspaper interview at 30 I was expecting the reaction the following day to be like the climax of 'Dead Poets Society,' but actually no one really cared.

The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.

There is an innate fear that runs within Israeli society of all that we see and hear around us, and you know what? It's a natural reaction of human beings.

I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap.

Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.

We're living in a society where you need to be accountable for your actions, for your behavior - for yourself. To sit back and be reactive would be to allow your children to make big mistakes without the benefit of your wisdom being bestowed on them. It's not what my parents taught me.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

This goes to show how much of an impact culture has. Even in countries where online access is readily available, there may not be the same expectation for women.

Overall, people are reading less.

I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites.

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

No one reads anything. They just look at images.