Quotes About Society

A los norteamericanos les chifla ver cómo se disculpan los pecadores.

I'm not just pretty anymore, I am pretty for my age. It is the truth: My value has decreased.

Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they're fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl.

the Cool Girl. Men always say that as the defining compliment, don't they? She's a cool girl.

You'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

And missouri has the death penalty,' I said. 'Fun Game.

Detta var i princip det värsta som skulle kunnat drabba min tävlingsinriktade hustru: ett samhälle med belåtna medelmåttor.

We are all working from the same dog-eared script. It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

you get a bunch of angry men together,and things aren't too good for a woman that comes across them

I hear they come to all the high-school parties," DeeAnna said. "And take all the boys. And do things we didn't do till we were old married women—and then only after the transaction of a few nice pieces of jewelry." She twirled a diamond tennis bracelet.

It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative). We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Jungle animals on attack, ancient icebergs collapsing, volcanoes erupting.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving...

Probabilmente qualche altro inquilino si era accorto di quell'acqua che scorreva fuori da quella porta, ma si era ben guardato dall'avvisare qualcuno, il portiere: la civiltà di massa ha questo pregio, che ciascuno può annegare liberamente senza che gli altri gli diano fastidio nel tentativo di salvarlo. È in fondo una forma di delicatezza e di rispetto dell'opinione altrui di morire da sé.

Little girls are twice as precious and innocent as little boys. I do not know a culture that does not make them that way.

Rome did not so much fall as collapse under its own weight. Germanic migrations, a corrupt and ineffectual government, insecurity within the borders, a breakdown of trade, and an economy built on slavery when the end of territorial expansion shut down new sources of slaves — all combined to destabilize Roman society. Add to that a colder and wetter climate that made it more difficult to grow crops, and this spelled disaster for at least the western, Latin-speaking half of the Empire.

The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust. —James Madison (1751–1836)

Qué mal género es el género humano.

Where could she be going with all them kids? The welfare office wasn't open. She was greeted with the friendly caution that women hold toward unmarried women who repeatedly have children—since they aren't having them by their own husbands, there is always the possibility they are having them by yours.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

It's a shame that money has to enter into everything.

Justice and fairness aren't just part of the social studies curriculum, you know. They're the building blocks of our entire society.

For the first time in its illustrious 136-year history, the Global Kennel Society postponed its main event due to green slime. All the Best

Our society is so topsy-turvy that we may actually come to value the child's willingness to separate more than her instincts for closeness. Unfortunately, we cannot have it both ways. Parents whose young children are not properly attached face a nightmare scenario just keeping the child in sight. We should be thankful for the assistance attachment provides

In a republic that depended on the intelligence and virtue of all citizens, the diffusion of knowledge had to be widespread. Indeed, said Noah Webster, education had to be "the most important business in civil society.