Quotes About Society

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with 'education.'

For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family.

No matter how much we deny it, the fact remains that we have a male-dominated society as well as industry.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.

It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it, we can also fix it.

The National Space Society is proud to have EIS as our flagship spaceflight program, and we look forward to the remarkable results that will flow from its successful completion.

The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how little there is in the novel about the world of money.

I think smartphones are one of humanity's most remarkable creations: computers are amazing enough, but a supercomputer you can carry in your pocket and communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere... it's no wonder they're troublingly addictive.

The idea that growth will remedy our debts is so addictive for politicians, but the citizens end up paying the price.

One of the things that will decline over time is the demand that the society or the government bring forth a particularized racial remedy based on a history of deprivation. That will be even more difficult to do in the future.

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.