Quotes About Society

a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life...

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.

There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.

My county? Another concept to which you attach from a distance a rather vague ideal. You want to know what "my country" really is? Nothing more or less than a gathering of shareholders, a form of property, bourgeois mentality, and vanity. Think about all the people in your country whom you wouldn't go near, and you'll see that the ties that are supposed to bind us together don't go very deep....

It is something of a tragedy for young girls of good family that they cannot carry on a love-affair in a simple, straightforward way, in secret, below their station if need be, as do their sisters of humbler origin, who can place their affections wherever they wish without risk of misdirecting a family fortune or making a 'bad match'.

The Church should adapt itself to the manners of the time, since it seems only too clear that the manners of the time adapt themselves less and less to the Church.

Despre dezvoltarea societ??ii: "Cu cât o societate ofer? mai pu?ine alternative, cu atât proiectele indivizilor decurg din cele câteva proiecte ?i norme oficial recunoscute, cu cât o societate las? loc mai pu?in loc pentru cultura îndoielii ?i pentru înv??ul dezv??ului, cu atât prostia ca încremenire în proiect câ?tig? teren ?i scleroza acelei societ??i este mai mare

Toate civiliza?iile care s-au dus de râp? au fost victima conjunc?iei letale dintre tic?lo?ie ?i ignoran??.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy. She was poor and black, which means people say they saw it coming.

You are not a beautiful girl, and even if you were, you know that is not related to how much sex a person has. Plenty of ugly people have sex. Plenty of ordinary people have sex. Plenty of beautiful people spend their nights alone.

You would think women would want to stick together when there weren't that many of them, but they never did. It was as if being a woman was a disease that you didn't wish to catch. As long as you didn't associate with the other women, you could imply to the majority, the men: I'm not like those other ones.

But the reason she was bourgeois was so she could make work that wasn't bourgeois. If she were cautious in her life, she could avoid compromising in her work.

Sadie knew she didn't want to make a shooter, though, again, that was what tended to be popular. (She would never want to make a shooter—she, Dov's student to her core, found them disgusting, immoral, and the disease of an immature society;

You want less crime? Make it so there are less criminals.

You would think women would want to stick together when there weren't that many of them. But they never did. It was as if being a woman was a disaster that you didn't wish to catch. As long as you didn't associate with the other women, you could imply to the majority, the men, I'm not like the other women.

She would never want to make a shooter—she, Dov's student to her core, found them disgusting, immoral, and the disease of an immature society;

The problem with it is that gender exists," she said. "Differences exist, and the law must acknowledge that or the law isn't fair.

Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp

saw a show where a convicted murderer did law school by correspondence so that he could try to get himself acquitted." "I'm not a murderer," she said. "I'm a slut, and you can't be acquitted of that.

People tell boring lies about politics

She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy. She was poor and black, which means people say they saw it coming. Sunday