Social Comment Quotes

#1. The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

Jon Landau

#2. Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Susan Sontag

#3. All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

Edward Albee

#4. The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.

Gene Kelly

#5. I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

Paul McCartney

#6. It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say.

David Levithan

#7. A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated

Haile Selassie

#8. I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can reasonably speak in terms of classes or social groups but only in terms of individuals.

John James Cowperthwaite

#9. The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

Sara Sheridan

#10. It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.

Margaret Cho

#11. I'm suffering from "Hyper-analytical Social Media Posting Disorder", characterized by a compulsion to edit 5 minutes after posting a comment, augmented by a repeating pattern: (((Tremors))) - fix-it - relief!!!

Will this comment survive?

Andrew Neff

#12. Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these outrageous events. We read essays and 'think pieces' about these outrageous events. We comment on the commentary. We do this because we can.

Roxane Gay

#13. With each tweet, post, share and comment, we are building and adding to our digital iceberg.

Tiffany Sunday

#14. Faced with so much ignorance and prejudice currently I can only comment that Facebook is a breeding ground for the worst fruits of our coarse personality.

J.B.Alves

#15. By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

John Le Carre

#16. Weekends welcome warriors for social fun that starts on Friday. Share, Like, comment, and friend. Netiquette

David Chiles

#17. Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear
it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.

Judith Martin

#18. I do not comment on politics, but I see computerization of the election process as good for stability and social harmony.

Andrew Tan

#19. The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to comment on the civilizing process and to keep alive the possibility of miraculous change and a sense of wonderment.

Jack D. Zipes

#20. Camille, a few feet away, looked like a gypsy who had mislaid his violin and had been searching for it in a hedgerow; he frustrated daily the best efforts of an expensive tailor, wearing his clothes as a subtle comment on the collapsing social order.

Hilary Mantel

#21. I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

Linda Sue Park

#22. To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media.

Annalee Newitz

#23. I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

Kristin Hunter