Societal Issues Quotes

I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed. I think it's very nice that in an age when love is so scarce that people are willing to gamble on getting married.

The reason to do any barking - well, the reason for me - is that 'Three Billboards' feels so off about so many things. It's one of those movies that really do think they're saying something profound about human nature and injustice.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

No one in China has a solid belief or trust in society.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

Even in a healthy society, violence, lawlessness, and predation lie just below the surface.

Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.

Jokes are grievances.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

Our society is full of hypocrites and irrational people.

Classic line from Bones (vampire) to human who thinks human kind is ready for the vamps and ghouls to come out of the closet "The day your kind stops killing each other over skin colour or which God someone prays to, I might believe that".

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.

A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.

We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices.

Where are the young people today? Why are they allowing some of the things that are happening in their country? I am really upset about that. I feel that they are burying their heads in the sand of electronic games and television. They don't want to know. Maybe they realize that their yuppie parents who protested Vietnam have turned on their ideals and are now struggling to buy a Lexus or whatever. These kids don't know what to revolt against, so they just completely ignore it, which is a very frightening thing.

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.

I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality. You are always representing human beings, their fears, their shortcomings, their braveries, their doubts, their loves, their abilities, their brilliance and those things inevitably lead to bigger political systems, foreign policy and crime and religion. It's an action film. We are not taking a stance about big government.

Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.

Our country is losing its self-esteem.