Quotes About Society

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

Fakat ayd?nlar?m?z ve yar?-ayd?nlar?m?z, "Nas?l olur da benim verdi?im oy, s?radan bir çöpçünün verdi?i oyla ayn? tutulur?", "Cahil kitleye göre ileriyi daha iyi gören ve bu nedenle büyük siyasi kararlarda daha etkin olabilecek hiç mi seçkin beyin yoktur?" biçimindeki sorular?yla kar??m?za ç?karlar.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

There's something wrong in the world,' Sargam said, 'when good people, honest people, can't sleep under a roof or share a meal around a table.

That prisoner of society's world, That sacrifice to vanity, The blind slave of custom, That small-souled being isn't you.

Society, with all its strictness is sometimes kind-hearted: depending on the circumstances, it looks with such Christian forgiveness upon powerful people, upon prominent and wealthy women! And besides, in the aristocratic educated world, everything is angled so smoothly, the sharp edges so blunted, and each monstrous and rotten affair called by such decent language that every shameful thing is glossed over in such fine circumstances, effortlessly and quietly.

Society women have achieved the wondrous art of contriving thirty variations on a phrase that means nothing even the first time

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

we live in a society where heterosexuality is considered the norm. It is important for those who do not fit the heterosexual mold to define their sexuality in order to pressure mainstream society to include same-sex couples in their concept of possible human relationships. It also enables those who are not heterosexual to have a context for their own experience.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

Happy is a poor word for someone who's trying to live a rainbow-colored life in a black-and-white world.

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield

Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender id that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of meanings built into it. It's an amalgamation of bodies, identities, and life experiences, subconscious urges, sensations, and behaviours, some of which develop organically, and others which are shaped by language and culture. Instead of saying that gender is any one single thing, let's start describing it as a holistic experience.

Artists shouldn't be made famous. You know... they're just ... as important as... um doctors, and priests ... or maybe not as important sometimes, and yet they have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance you know, football stars and theatre stars It is man-made so the press can feed off it.

Class in England is no more determined by wealth than it is by occupation.

Social scientists are not universally liked or appreciated, but we are still marginally more acceptable than alcoholics and escaped lunatics.

I mentioned earlier that someone once said that the English have satire instead of revolutions (or something to that effect): we complain bitterly, and often wittily, but we do not actually do anything about it.

There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.

There's money, and then there's class.

Men do not appreciate intelligence in women. It is not considered to be feminine.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. —Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.