Societal Insight Quotes

I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.

The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be part of this understanding; and on the other level, Al Jazeera should concentrate on the margin rather than the centre. It means that Al Jazeera should be close to the public.

Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.

I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is.

Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He's so good - I mean, practically anything I've ever read of his I've really enjoyed. He just has tremendous talent. But I think he should have given himself a break and gone deeper into the society.

Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.

I'm familiar with the Palestinian mentality, the culture, religion, and when I had information coming in on a daily basis: secrets about personal lives, politicians, what they are hiding from their society that most people don't see, I started to see the picture in a different way.

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.

A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?