Quotes About Society

It wasn't that I actually was fat or anything, it was just that I wasn't supposed to be eating all that candy—it showed. It showed at the beach. It showed in "tight" skirts. It showed in gym. But I was never dumb enough to think I was Fat; because I wasn't, I just wasn't perfect. And I have never liked perfect things, they give me the creeps.

Every article about her sooner or later gets around to the subject of her lovers, who were reportedly legion. (Earl McGrath, former president of Rolling Stone Records: "In every young man's life there is an Eve Babitz. It's usually Eve Babitz.")

I love hordes. They screen out free choice; you're free at last: stuck. Our

I've been in fast company, as they call it

When I weigh 130, my friends think I'm dying and use words like gaunt . When I weight 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she's just murdered someone.

chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.

You know, when you come to think about it, it's a wonder women have anything to do with men at all, and no surprise that men have devised all kinds of schemes to bind women to them, like not giving them any money. If you had your choice of sleeping with a beautiful soft creature or a large hard one, which would you pick? I mean, if they both had the same amount of money?

How come we have money to kill but no money to feed or heal? How come we have money to destroy but no money for art and schools? The

Winthrop was arguing for nothing more than the role expected of any seventeenth-century Englishwoman.

By this time, increasing numbers of citizens were traders, merchants, sailors, and brokers, who had more commercial and mercantile concerns than the earlier émigrés, who tended to support Winthrop. Ironically, the highest-born immigrant of all—Vane, the idealistic son of a member of the king's Privy Council—was, together with the free-thinker Anne Hutchinson, the champion of Boston's burgeoning middle class.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

In our society, the pursuit of thinness (whether for health or physique)—has become the battle cry of seemingly every American.

He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.

A fad is an innovation that represents a relatively unimportant aspect of culture, which diffuses very rapidly, mainly for status reasons, and then is rapidly discontinued.

The adoption of other highly visible innovations like new cars and hair styles is especially likely to be status motivated.

gli uomini vivevano in stato di libertà, cioè nello stato degli animali, delle scimmie, del bestiame?

Che l'«uomo economico» non esista, fu anche il punto di vista di Mussolini, che ad esso contrappose l'«uomo integrale» (1933); e la sua idea era che «la politica ha dominato e sempre dominerà l'economia», in

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.