Quotes About Society

The insistence that somehow women are an endangered species that needs to be protected at all costs seems to me to be contrary to what's desirable for their view of themselves. And it just invests far more power in the male than is necessary.

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

A brave little woman,' said the vicar. 'So many of our women are now left alone.' And so they were. Those who in peacetime were expected to need male protection, in wartime were assumed to be able to manage perfectly well. And so they did.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Ma, se riprendeva a leggere romanzi, sognava di vivere nell'alta società, di essere corteggiata, di essere amata; e quei desideri la struggevano.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Ese es el defecto de las mujeres decentes de estas tierras. ¡No hablar! No hablamos y tenemos que hablar.

La tierra es un planeta mediocre, pero hay que ayudar a la civilización

Cuando el chino lloraba en el tejado sin encontrar el desnudo de su mujer y el director del banco observaba el manómetro que mide el cruel silencio de la moneda, el mascarón llegaba a Wall Street.

Vamos al rincón oscuro, donde yo siempre te quiera, que no me importe la gente, ni el veneno que nos echa.

La primera enseñanza de la polis griega es que la peor ley escrita es mejor que el albedrío del más magnánimo de los señores. No es extraño qüe la aristocracia primitiva exigiese que las leyes le asegurasen su poder mediante «draconianas» disposiciones, y que, aun así, la aceptación de las leyes hubiese de serle arrancada. Sabía que la concesión que se veía obligada a hacer era cualitativamente impagable, que no podía haber contrapartida equivalente.

Humans are a cooperative, if argumentative, race.

In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

One by one those capitalist countries which arrive at a complete impasse, take the road of fascism

In a society obsessed with coupling (turn on the radio and try to find a song that's not about true love—getting it, wanting it, losing it, getting it back), the solitary acts as a contemporary court jester, telling truths about our communities that those certified by the laws of state and church are unable to perceive or unwilling to speak aloud.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Las costumbres de una nación tienen repercusión en su lengua y, a su vez, la lengua es la que en gran medida hace a la nación.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?

Par là le confucianisme aboutit à une règle de vie, à une morale qui tend à maintenir ordre et hiérarchie dans la société et dans l'État, et qui réagit vivement contre l'anarchie intellectuelle et sociale des sophistes et légistes.

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

L'Église a dû faire face constamment à cette déchristianisation régulière, monotone qui n'est souvent que vulgaire décivilisation.

Une nation qui tolère les quartiers de taudis, les égoûts à ciel ouvert, les classes surpeuplées, et qui ose châtier les jeunes délinquants, me fait penser à cette vieille ivrognesse qui vomissait sur ses gosses à longueur de semaine et giflait le plus petit, par hasard, un dimanche, parce qu'il avait bavé sur son tablier. (p. 41)