There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It’s because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos.
Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
I want to make sure I do the right thing for society.
One of the main inspirations behind The Power of Makeup was bullies and the one thing I believe in is that makeup is not just society, it’s for you.
There’s something about death. It’s like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That’s why society is so into things like vampires, because they don’t die. Well, why don’t they die?
The concept of multiculturalism is difficult to make fit with a democratic society.
I do wonder why modern society has made monogamy the one and only option. In England, it’s always, ‘Are you with him, or him?’ Perish the thought it might be both.
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
A song’s lyrics can’t be held culprit for the overall change in society.
I am not shy. I am for an open society. I am for a progressive world. I do not propose to reform France; I propose to transform it at its deepest level.
Startup India is welcome for the economy, but it cannot be accompanied by ‘Shut Up India’ in society. What gives Startup India its strength is freedom of expression, thought, and dissent. You choke this, and you choke entrepreneurship.
I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it’s a sort of insular strand of society.
A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don’t affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades.
What do most people say on their deathbed? They don’t say, ‘I wish I’d made more money.’ What they say is, ‘I wish I’d spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.’
A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
If we’re not protecting our women and we’re not protecting our girls and we’re not protecting the most vulnerable people in this society, who are we as a country?
I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.
There’s an expression in Persian, ‘to play with the lion’s tail.’ I wasn’t what Iranian society wanted me to be – a good girl. I played with the lion’s tail.
