Bill Condon Quotes

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

It's so crazy to look at your life and see how far you've come.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

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

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

If you try to smooth out society with a hot iron, you're liable to drive out all talent.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.