Jude Law Quotes

Something is sick with our society that we have to deal with.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

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.

We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing.

Our society is full of hypocrites and irrational people.

American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet.

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

Philosophers are men hired by the well-to-do to prove that everything is all right.

For there is nothing so social by nature, [and] so unsocial by its corruption, as this race.

There are two things we don’t like to talk about: bad government and bad culture.

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.

We are in a bad way. That herd of wild asses' colts [see Job 11:12], braying and kicking up their heels, is an unsatisfactory result of a hundred years of Democracy.

.d immorality;, The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.

As long as a man sees in our present society only a few inevitable abuses and recognizes no sin and evil deep-seated in the very constitution of the present order, he is still in a state of moral blindness… Christians should see through the fictions of capitalism.

For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent.

The corrosion of our public language reflects deep pathologies — societal, cultural, economic — in the body politic.

To the New England mind, roads, schools, clothes, and a clean face were connected as part of the law of order or divine system. Bad roads meant bad morals. The moral of this Virginia road was clear, and the boy fully learned it. Slavery was wicked, and slavery was the cause of this road’s badness which amounted to [a] social crime.

I define 'social thriller' as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.