Gore Vidal Quotes

I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it?

When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.

… degrees of crookedness are usually measured only by opportunity. I have always had a feeling that society ought to look with more disfavor on the man who profits from other people's crimes than on the criminals themselves.

There is not often much policy discussion with the Bushes. There isn't much introspection. Several generations of Bush men could pass by in which the great questions of humankind will go undiscussed.

My generation grew up in the heyday of the '90s, with the Internet boom and the birth of overnight millionaires. But our politicians seem to be pushing personal agendas over the idea of making the world a better place for their children.

In daily life, there are times when people are happy to talk about problems, but when the society is troubled by something, there is never a larger platform for discussion. Bollywood is religion in our country and that is the best place where you can place those questions on the table.

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

Whatever is shown in a TV show is a reflection of society.

I know I did 'Establishment Blues,' and I said 'This is not a song it's an outburst' and I'd play it, I never did describe it as a rant - R-A-N-T - but the thing is it's exactly that. Sometimes it sounds like that, but there's a lot out there on the everyday man, on the plight of the little guy.

We as parents, and the control culture, it is our responsibility to make sure we give the right perceived norms and the right cultural conditions.

It is hard to speak the truth about valued national institutions. But when they are not fit for purpose, we must speak out.

I'm not a political comic at all, so it would be weird if I just turned into a preachy, sort-of political commentator.

I am a social realist writer.

I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal.

People pass a lot of judgment about each other in India, and that is a tendency I don't like.

It feels dangerous when people say, 'Oh, Sean Baker focuses on marginalised people.' And offensive. As if I'm standing there with my planner thinking, 'OK, where's the next marginalised group I can make a movie about?'

I think it's funny when stereotypes happen.

I've always been known for making socially conscious music in the midst of the love songs and the bedroom songs.

A film is a mirror image of our society. If there's something wrong with the way we make films or the way women are stereotyped, then it means that it's happening in real life.

The press is always more comfortable with factual determinations than moral ones, although in day-to-day life, a lot of people care a heck of a lot more about morality than every precise actual fact.

There's not really too many artists that young girls and young people can look up to and be inspired by. So I take it as my responsibility, sometimes, to be the person who has the voice to give people some truth about what we're doing.

No matter what road I take, I can never get too far away from the conscious lyric and the socially conscious content.

On 'Black Mirror,' we don't tend to deal with big, powerful people, because when you look at a Weinstein or something, you think, 'Is he capable of feeling anything?'

I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.