Quotes About Society

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people.

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

It is up to Labour to keep alive the belief that government should be for the whole nation and that no section of society should place itself beyond scrutiny and above the law.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

Codependency has a way of tearing at the very soul of a person; of a society too, I think.

In fact, vibrators were one of the first appliances to be electrified in the late nineteenth century, not long after the sewing machine but well ahead of the vacuum cleaner. It seems the Victorians had their priorities right.

All phone calls are obscene.

It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

So she fell into a black silence, she who had not been entitled to choose which home, which life. Who had gone out in a buggy a few times with a man of an age to be her father, ... agreed to marry. Who had accepted, not chosen. Because she was not a man.

I've often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there's a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

It's unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there's a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

Preach comfort to the rich and you will grow fat; preach hell to the poor and you will starve with them. [p. 319 of 465, chapter 20]

Tramp stamp or get the fuck out.

If you've read any comics, you know superheroes have a critical vulnerability: the society they protect.

Ain't too young for nothing." "In some societies that would be true. Different places. Different times. You'd be old enough to be a wife and mother.

People were not supposed to be getting married when she couldn't and people were not supposed to be hooking up when she wasn't.

Vad jag vet är, att av sjuka föräldrar och sjuka lärare fostras ännu sjukare barn, tills det sjuka har blivit norm och det friska en skräckbild. Av ensamma föds ännu ensammare, av rädda ännu räddare (s. 144)

But society is going to fall apart if we stop reporting crime.