Quotes About Society

'The Green Lantern' seems a little calculated to me. It's like, 'We've got to get on this gay bandwagon and make this character gay.' Like anything else, there's earnest expressions in the culture and then there's kind of bandwagoning.

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

Women who make the choice to have grey hair - I think that's beautiful.

Cops and criminals aren't that different. They just play by different sets of rules. And the lines get blurred. There's no such thing as 'right' and 'wrong.' There's always a grey area. There are always hypocrisies.

There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

Some stuntmen become actors, but Hollywood is a caste-oriented society. Most of the time you just don't have the opportunity to get out of your field if you're a grip, an electrician, stuntman, set designer, director or actor.

Human beings are gross.

Economic gross is making us fat.

Even though most of us love, love, love it when we're flush with cash, and we fantasize about what we'd do with more of it, we'd feel gross saying 'I love money' out loud.

It's kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy. That's exactly what the country is like now. You no longer have the sense of community. Of loyalty. It's lost its sense of group. It has nothing to do with leadership.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

In America, aren't we all supposed to see beyond class, see beyond ethnicity? Are all these lines drawn to set us apart and lock us into groups?

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

I'm never going to make apologies for trying to create a kind of society and a kind of community where my kids will be proud to grow up in.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

Being pretty was always a very big thing growing up.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

When government grows, it breaks the family.

I've experienced that, I think everyone who grows up a male experiences this idea of what it's supposed to mean to become a man from a boy.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

Government cannot guarantee much, but it can and should guarantee freedom of opportunity.

I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.