Quotes About Society

Now, she thought; I may go mad, but at least I look like a lady.

A clean house is a sign of mental inferiority.

Why do women always look so funny alone at night? she thought. I guess you're so used to seeing them with some one.

Shirley Jackson

Technology has become the way Western man perceives progress. But technology itself is a reflection of how we see ourselves. If the negativity is in us, it will appear somewhere in our technology.

Despite the fact that your psychology says that an old bachelor is an egoist. Maybe that in itself is egoism.

Just recently, she had an engagement party for her daughter. Great God! May you and I have a third of what that party cost her.

Not everyone would do for a husband what I've done. All that fancy living has gone to his lordship's head.

But a lot you care when all you can think of is your fine Yehupetz ladies. They should gash themselves on their diamonds and bleed to death!

a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

new theories and new movements do not develop in a vacuum, they arise to spearhead the necessary social solutions to new problems resulting from contradictions in the environment.

Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.

The word 'actress' or 'authoress' always struck me as condescending. A doctor's a doctor, right? So I've always referred to 'actors' and 'writers,' regardless of their sex.

There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. —SIR WILLIAM OSLER

Men mold some cities, some cities mold men.

Old money's motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money's motto was, If you have it, flaunt it.

Civilization was a thin, dangerously fragile veneer, and when that veneer cracked, man became one with the beasts again, falling back into the slime of the primeval abyss he prided himself on having climbed up from.

Each day it was getting more and more difficult for an honest man to make a living.

I don't know about the people's nature... I know only about people.

All rich Americans are crazy, especially their women.

Some cities are shaped by people, and some cities shape people.

Men! It would be a wonderful world if we could live without the bastards. Or maybe it wouldn't. Who knows?

Outside, most people knew that decades ago, the religious fundamentalists lost the ability to transform society when they became a political movement. Their boycotts and protests were commonplace, any outcry against anything beyond the narrow range of what they saw as biblically acceptable was dismissed as a knee-jerk reaction.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.