Quotes About Society

liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

I view each world religion, including Judeo-Christianity and Islam, as a complex symbol system, a metaphysical lens through which we can see the vastness and sublimity of the universe. Knowledge of the Bible, one of the West's foundational texts, is a dangerously waning among aspiring young artists and writers. When a society becomes all-consumed in the provincial minutiae of partisan politics, all perspective is lost.

Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in a totalitarian future that has removed procreation from woman's hands, there will also be no affect and no art. Men will be machines, without pain but also without pleasure. Imagination has a price, which we are paying every day. There is no escape from the biologic chains that bind us.

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.

American feminism has a man problem. The beaming Betty Crockers, hangdog dowdies, and parochial prudes who call themselves feminists want men to be like women. They fear and despise the masculine. The academic feminists think their nerdy bookworm husbands are the ideal model of human manhood. But

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

Religion gives you a huge vision of the universe and human existence. If you take away religion, you have to replace it with something else. So today the educated class worships politics.

If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.

Why do magazines do this to women? It's all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.

Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

Candace Bushnell

Why do magazine do this to women? Miranda complains now, glaring at Vogue. It's all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough guess what? What? I (Carrie) ask, picking up the grocery bad, Men win. That's how they keen us down she concludes

it's telling yourself that you want the things that society tells you you should want. women thikn that survival depends on conformity. but for some women, conformity is death. it's a death to the soul. the soul, she said, is a precious thing. when you live a lie, you damage the soul.

Men are the hunters and women are the gatherers. Shopping is a form of gathering.

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy.

So much of being a woman is telling lies, isn't it?" Victory asked. "It's telling yourself that you want the things that society tells you you should want. Women think that survival depends on conformity. But for some women, conformity is death. It's a death to the soul. The soul," she said, "is a precious thing. When you live a lie, you damage the soul.

Toisinaan minusta tuntuu, että kaikki maailman ikävyydet johtuvat miehistä. Jollei miehiä olisi, naiset olisivat jatkuvasti onnellisia.

People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it.

The idea, so current in our time, that Southern California is peopled by idlers, oldsters, playboys, and crackpots.

Carl Hiaasen

and the Chamber of Commerce was handing out cyanide capsules.

She said, 'you think I'm a whore?' 'Don't be ridiculous.' Erin stepped back from the water. 'But you wouldn't want your daughter doing what I do.' 'My daughter,' said Garcia, 'is not leaving the house until she's thirty years old.