Social Commentary Quotes
Collection of top 60 famous quotes about Social Commentary
Social Commentary Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Social Commentary quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
— Joni Mitchell
Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.
— Gary Larson
Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.
— Erich Fromm
I'm interested in social commentary.
— Kathryn Bigelow
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
— Iris Murdoch
His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.
— Eleanor Catton
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
— James Baldwin
After all, if a community could reach some sort of an equilibrium without having to be guided by an outsider, then so much the better.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
— Alastair Reynolds
You can take the ape out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the ape.
— John Steiner
When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment.
— Erri De Luca
One good thing about being an immigrant in the US, no one cares about my sociopolitical opinion. I exist like a bland wallpaper to all races.
— Fidelis O. Mkparu
... does not need Facebook, Twitter and Stumble Upon. She is a whole social media network all by herself.
— Pandora Poikilos
I have little tolerance for noise and stupidity.
— Andrew J. Robinson
Riding in a carriage without an escort is modern. But traveling out and about unescorted is unheard of.
— Jordan Stratford
Jazz is democracy in music.
— Wynton Marsalis
..the happy hum of humanity.
— Arthur C. Clarke
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
— John Shirley
You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.
— Amber Benson
It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.
— David Laskin
Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.
— Raegan Butcher
Did you notice there aren't any average kids anymore - only Gifted and Disposable?
— Heather Choate Davis
Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
— George Macaulay Trevelyan
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
— Matt Groening
Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.
— Margaret Atwood
I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
— Elbert Hubbard
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived ... (Bk2:3)
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Social proof is a flame to the human mind moth, and it leaves a fire trail of destruction across the path of enough.
— Will Jelbert
I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
— Damian Marley
It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
— Sherman Alexie
Just because all the rats are gone doesn't mean I trust the rattlesnake that got rid of them.
— John Steiner
He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.
— Nikolai Gogol
A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.
— Eric Schlosser
If you won't admit there are kooks among those who share your political viewpoint, chances are, you're one of the kooks.
— Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
He happy hum of humanity.
— Arthur C. Clarke
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
— Thucydides
She was all slump and sag her spirit withering like a tuckering weed shambling for a way out
— Saira Viola
From school desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet... technology progression yes... style?
— David H. Millar
The problem is just too big to solve. This life is much easier if we all just pretend to have a heart.
— E.P. Shelky
Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.
— Steven Pressfield
Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
— Margaret Atwood