Quotes About Society

En réalité, puisque si peu de personnes font examiner leurs chromosomes, on pourrait défendre l'idée que dans la grande majorité des cas, les genTEs ont un sexe génétique qui reste encore à déterminer.

Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.

Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.

What magic, what alchemical changes, unexpected, unknown as yet to man, can produce a state of freedom in a society in which it is not possible for one of us to be free until we are all free?

Society exists to transcend itself, and the progressive force of all evolution is the poetic imagination, the teleological instinct that moves with the organic principle of all evolution, to take possession of new forms of life, new fields of consciousness.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

CIVILIZATION is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else.

The movie and the political campaign GEMS built around it were typical of [Rachel] Lloyd's in-your-face approach to politics and publicity. "If we just framed it as 'rescuing children,' people would give us more money," she says. "I could put pictures of little scared blond kids on our Web page. But this isn't about rescuing a child from a bad situation. This is about what we, as a culture and a society, are creating; why can this be perpetuated within our society?

The voice boomed. "In case you hadn't noticed, your daughter is . . . overweight.

We're guessing the bonjour ritual is expanding because it underlines equality—a principle the French value much more than either liberty or fraternity.

The French don't value education. They exalt it.

Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism.

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact.

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

I've never quite understood why people marry marriage is just an invented structure.

l'uomo, allo stato di natura, nasce virtuoso; il vizio deriva dalla vita nella società mondane, esposta alle artefatte pressioni urbane.

Irma La Douce

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

The Treachery of the Intellectuals.

Whiteness is filthy.