Quotes About Society

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today.

I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

I found out pretty quickly that there is a lot of money to be made if you can become the kind of woman who doesn't look like the kind of woman she is.

Communism," I observed, "is a pile of wank.

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

The only trouble with being female in Pakistan is that it allows for two possible modes of behaviour--either you can be sweet and simple, or you can be cold and proud.

Their lives were and are consumed with the generally dreadful business of being Russian.

I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.

Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!

What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel.

Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time.

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.

In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

Criminals are just regular people who didn't have time to read all the laws.

Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.