Quotes About Society

Many women still see their disorganization issues as a character flaw.

Having a relationship and not even a sexual one is so straight, it's practically perverted.

You'll always be a fat girl. You don't know how to be anything else.

I'm not used to wearing heels,' she moaned. 'They hurt and they're patriarchal signifiers designed to cripple women and stop them from taking big strides through life.

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

Bertolt Brecht's observation in The Threepenny Opera that eating takes precedence over morality. Emerging

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness.

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.

A free and open society is an on-going conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises—which then become the start for the continuation of conflict, compromise, and on ad infinitum.

The myth of altruism as a motivating factor in our behavior could arise and survive only in a society bundled in the sterile gauze of New England puritanism and Protestant morality and tied together with the ribbons of Madison Avenue public relations. It is one of the classic American fairy tales. From

Citizen participation is the animating spirit and force in a society predicated on voluntarism. We

Not only does a single- or even a dual-issue organization condemn you to a small organization, it is axiomatic that a single-issue organization won't last. An organization needs action as an individual needs oxygen. With only one or two issues there will certainly be a lapse of action, and then comes death. Multiple issues mean constant action and life. An

Revolution by the Have-Nots has a way of inducing a moral revelation among the Haves. Revolution

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people.

Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society.

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

Why is it a girl has to be so silly to catch a husband?

One rabbit has a label on its are, another one doesn't. You can love the one with the label and everyone accepts that. Risk your life for a real animal and people say you're mad.

Because of capitalism, Lissa. Because of your fathers and what they do." "Sir, that's sexist! Some of our mothers might be capitalists too.

There's no shame," John Barton said quietly. "Funerals are the place for letting it out. They're the last free-for-all in our society. Without them we would all turn to stone from unexpressed emotion.

Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. It's that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow Jesus means to follow Jesus into a society where justice rules, where love shapes everything. To follow Jesus means to take up his dream and work for it.