Quotes About Society

Les femmes ne sont pas solidaires en tant que sexe : elles sont d'abord liées à leur classe. Les intérêts des bourgeoises et ceux des femmes prolétaires ne se recoupent pas.

the little girl feels that her body is escaping her, that it is no longer the clear expression of her individuality; it becomes foreign to her; and at the same moment, she is grasped by others as a thing; on the street, eyes follow her, her body is subject to comments; she would like to become invisible she is afraid of becoming flesh and afraid to show her flesh

Bourgeoises, elles sont solidaires des bourgeois et non des femmes prolétaires ; blanches des hommes blancs et non des femmes noires

Muž je v práve preto, že je muž. V nepráve je žena.

As long as perfect economic equality is not realized in society and as long as customs allow the woman to profit as wife and mistress from the privileges held by certain men, the dream of passive success will be maintained in her and will hold back her own accomplishments.

ByÃ…Â¥ ženou znamená byÃ…Â¥ objektom, tou Druhou.

Tak ako v Amerike nie je problém ?ernochov, ale problém bielych, tak ako "antisemitizmus nie je problém židovský, ale problém náÅ¡," tak problém ženy bol vždy problémom mužov.

for not only does the woman of fashion project herself into things, she has chosen to make herself a thing.

No hay que creer en el Príncipe Azul. Los hombres no son más que unos pobres seres.» No parecerían enanos si no se les pidiera que fuesen gigantes.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman

Love in the modern sense does not exist in antiquity except outside of official society," notes Engels: at the very point where antiquity broke off its penchant for sexual love, the Middle Ages took it up again with adultery. And this is the form that love will take as long as the institution of marriage lasts.

This is what democratic societies understand; they strive to confirm citizens in the feeling of their individual value; the whole ceremonious apparatus of baptism, marriage, and burial is the collectivity's homage to the individual; and the rites of justice seek to manifest society's respect for each of its members considered in his particularity.

The social order, though necessary, is essentially evil, whatever it may be.

If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale ... we must have formed a conception of equilibrium and be ever ready to change sides like justice, 'that fugitive from the camp of conquerors'.

Money, mechanization, algebra. The three monsters of contemporary civilization.

Society is the cave. The way out is solitude.

A popular Spanish song says in words of marvelous truth: "If anyone wants to make himself invisible, there is no surer way than to become poor." Love sees what is invisible.

Toda la publicidad, toda la propaganda, tan variada en sus formas, que busca excitar el deseo de lo superfluo, tanto en el campo como entre los obreros, debe ser considerada un crimen.

Il faut éliminer le malheur autant qu'on le peut de la vie sociale, car le malheur ne sert qu'à la grâce et la société n'est pas une société d'élus. Il y aura toujours assez de malheur pour les élus.

Those who are lacking in goodwill or who remain adolescent are never free under any form of society.

A society like the Church, which claims to be divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains than on account of the evil which sullies it.

Not individuals but institutions are the enemies, and they most afflict the disciples who the most generously serve them. They insinuate their tyranny under a hundred guises and pompous names, such as Polite Society, the Family, the Church, Sound Business, the Party, the Country, the Superior White Race; and the only defense against them, Carol beheld, was unembittered laughter.

There is no Solution! There will never be a state of society anything like perfect!

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics.