Quotes About Society

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

One great building does not make a great city.

People talk about how great this country is - and it's a great country - but I feel that many young people don't believe they have access to the American dream.

I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

There is a national consensus building here that drugs are doing a great deal of damage to the Bolivian society.

'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.

I didn't come out for 21 years because I thought that everything I wanted to do with my life - have a family, get a great job, make a change in this world - that the moment I came out, that I would not be able to do any of those things.

But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.

Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

There's much more activity in England than in Greece. Or at least there's a lot more development, which obviously brings another set of problems.

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

Finance is about being short-term greedy, rather than thinking about the markets as a critical part of our society that exist to empower the world, rather than to enrich a few.

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.