Quotes About Society

It's alarming, really, how quickly nice people become ravenous, bloodthirsty.

Harper was well aware of how pretty white women enchanted society. Girls with brown skin like hers disappeared every day and people on the internet barely batted an eye.

America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity.

like all of her, wrong sex, wrong class, wrong attitude...

Our consciousness, as individuals and as a society, has been raised. We've realized that women have souls, and men have feelings.

Although some things appear not to have changed, things are constantly changing. Our consciousness, as individuals and as a society, has been raised. We've realized that women have souls, and men have feelings. And I've gone deeper into my healing process than I ever intended.

Love is a secret society, a community for two.

You had the feeling they were nice because they'd decided it was the fashion to be nice.

When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.

You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy," Dominik

These "doyennes of society" were no different at bottom than the leading dames among the gossips of her own village. Within that little "society," their word was law, and the law was respectability.

Clarice concentrated on taking deep breaths. Men did not burst into tears, no matter how terrible the tragedy.

He thinks marriage will make our love more real when marriage will only make our love more necessary. Marriage (Often) is just a publicity stunt a social security, Yes, I will stay with you BUT you don't have to marry me Marriage is not a payment or something you can 'give' me It is not something that you can do 'for' me only 'with me

I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs--which shows how screwed up this world really is!

Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?

I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not.

Patriarchy has no gender.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our 'natural' condition.

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

We need to highlight the role women play in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a system women and men support equally, even if men receive more rewards from that system. Dismantling and changing patriarchal culture is work that men and women must do together.

To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.

Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.