“Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.”
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“Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.”
“And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?”
“As society advances the standard of poverty rises.”
“There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.”
“In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.”
“Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.”
“Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.”
“A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.”
“Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.”
“The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.”
“On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.”
“Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?”
“We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.”
“I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.”
“Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.”
“I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.”
“Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.”
“Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.”
“And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.”
“I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.”
“The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.”
“Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'”
“In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.”