Quotes About Society

Ultimately, we get what we ask for. The culture has been dumbed down for our consumption because we consume it. Junk food wouldn't sell if we didn't eat it. Crap movies wouldn't get produced if we didn't pay to see them. Crap TV wouldn't get made if we didn't watch it. We're not only what we eat. We're also what we see and what we buy. Our culture is a reflection of who we are and how we think. We have met the enemy and he is us. Whether

It was always the view of my parents, Emily said, that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

It is the world that shapes people's minds. It is men who have shaped the world. So women's minds are shaped by men. From earliest childhood, the world they see is made by men. Now the women lie to themselves and there is confusion and unhappiness everywhere.

The United States-It's nervous poplulation obese, fearful, tormented by inarticulate anger, contemptuous of governance, murdering sleep with every new handgun.

intent on her phone, reading, tapping, frowning in the contemporary manner.

By what logic or motivation or helpless surrender did we all, hour by hour, transport ourselves within a generation from the thrill of optimism at Berlin's falling Wall to the storming of the American Capitol?

We've built a world too complicated and dangerous for our quarrelsome natures to manage.

But this inglorious revolution wasn't for me. I didn't want a sex shop in every town.

the) adjunct to a civilised existence.

Biology is destiny, and destiny is digital, and in this case binary. It was bleakly simple. No one exclaims at the moment of one's dazzling coming-out, It's a person! Instead: It's a girl, It's a boy. Pink or blue.

It was not always the case that a large minority comprising the weakest members of society wore special clothes, were freed from the routines of work and of many constraints on their behaviour and were able to devote much of their time to play. It should be remembered that childhood is not a natural occurrence. There was a time when children were treated like small adults. Childhood is an invention, a social construct, made possible by society as it increased in sophistication and resource.

Love stories like Jane Austen's used to conclude chastely with preparations for a wedding. Now their climax lay on the far side of carnal knowledge, where all of complexity waited.

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy, for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.

these were good years for staying out of a job. Without asking too many impertinent questions, the State paid the rent and granted a weekly pension to artists, out-of-work actors, musicians, mystics, therapists and a network of citizens for whom smoking cannabis and talking about it was an engrossing profession, even a vocation.

No one exclaims at the moment of one's dazzling coming-out, It's a person! Instead: It's a girl, It's a boy. Pink or blue. Only two sexes. I was disappointed. If human bodies, minds, fates are so complex, if we are free like no other mammal, why limit the range? I seethed, and then, like everyone else, I settled down and made the best of my inheritance. For sure, complexity would come upon me in time.

It was exhilarating, at least at first, to live in a city of narcissists.

The revolutionary lone inventor was a fantasy of popular culture – and the Minister

all citizens deserve the regime they are willing to endure…

In that time, moral standards were high in public life and so, therefore, was hypocrisy.

Israel had always thought that growing up was simply something that happened to you: you grew taller, more dextrous, you acquired language, learned to feed yourself, developed intellectually, went to school, got a mortgage, had children, got fatter and tired and full of regrets, and that was it, you were grown up, you were an adult. There was more to it than that though, apparently - and it was something that women knew, and men did not.

This pandemic seems to me not unlike my mother's cancer: a threat, a warning, a reminder for society. Whether, like my mother, we ignore its import, is up to each one of

It's like you had a coming-out party," Andrea said. "You've been presented to polite society, except now everybody wants to kill you." "Spare me." "Kate Daniels, a debutante." Andrea grinned. "It's not funny." "It's hilarious." The smile slid off Andrea's face and she vomited on the snow. "Karma," I told her.

Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.

The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy. The boys hung on his every word. He glanced in her direction. I have met some incredibly unpleasant women, and I have never failed in this duty. But I must admit: your sister may prove my undoing.