Quotes About Society

We know that the crime committed by people with guns by criminals, they get the guns by flouting the law to begin with. They don't go to gun shows.

On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.

When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

I would like to live long enough to see the day when people talk about which guns are the safest.

There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun violence in America.

There are too many guns.

I feel like kids naturally love guns, so I was drawn to that.

I would ban guns in the States. It's just such an epidemic that's been happening for so long.

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.

You cannot control the spending habits of people. It is a free society, after all, and people should have right to spend their money as they wish.

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.

As a mother, you're only allowed to talk about the 'good' moments - not the ones when you've had enough and want to be on your own. Or just want to be a woman, not a mother.

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

Not everybody gets to travel halfway around the world to see a whole different perspective. If we can see that on TV, we'll know that society is bigger than the small world we all live in.

In the state of Florida, we've got a lot of issues. In fact, we've got 99 issues, and 'Hamilton' ain't one of them.

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

I guess this is where they send the abortions that live.

That's what you get when a bunch of fucks in tights try to save the goddamn day.

Madness is unfortunately not incompatible with government.

high levels of criminal violence reduce a nation's economic productivity by 2 to 3 full percentage points of GDP—and

If we can agree that the word love permeates human society, both historically and in the present, we must also agree that it is a most confusing word. We use it in a thousand ways. We