Quotes About Society

Life must have sucked growing up without TV." "Back then people could wait a few days to learn about all the things they couldn't control. . . Nowadays we're much more impatient for our impotence.

the women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women.

Polly had always marveled . . . that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose . . . gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them.

I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It's actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.

the role of government was to help the little guy; the big guys can take care of themselves.

Black saw the connection between crime and poverty.

Men control the world, but women control the men.

Women are conditioned to give themselves away.

What this means is that most non-vegans can only imagine what it would be like for them to be vegan, whereas the vegan can actually remember what it was like for her to be non-vegan. And yet, against all societal odds, he lives, thrives, and continues to enjoy food.

I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.

At deception he means. Perhaps I am better than some, but every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be.

To be thought of as the perfect woman for a man isn't a compliment to a woman, it's more about how a man sees himself—and what he needs.

when gentlemen stare at my bosom, they don't hear a word I say. I strongly believe that if trees sprouted breasts tomorrow, they would soon be wearing wedding rings.

but every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be.

She understood the charges of profligacy and shallowness pelted at the Upper Ten Thousand, at those whose entire lives revolved around endless arrays of entertainment. But she also knew that for those on the inside, it was the only way they had been taught to live. Few, in the end, ever truly defied the way they were taught to live.

She glanced down at the muffin, as if debating whether to drench it with even more butter. The term Maximum Tolerable Chins popped into Mrs. Watson's head—it had come up the first time they sat down at the table together, the benchmark for whether Miss Holmes ate as she wished or gave in to the lamentable necessity to curb her appetite. With visible regret Miss Holmes set down her butter knife.

every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be. But

Perhaps she had always been a monster, but even the lady monsters of the world couldn't escape the expectations that came of being women.

Leighton was used to letting women talk. Whether by temperament or by the requirement to be amiable, women talked, their speech the unguent that greased the gears of polite society.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.