Quotes About Society

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

The tyranny of Venus is felt whenever a woman thinks—or whenever a man thinks and tells a woman—that her hips are too wide, her thighs are too large, her breasts are too small, her waist is too high, her legs are too short to meet the current erotic standard.

As Beauvoir remarked, "It is not easy to play the idol, the fairy, the faraway princess, when one feels a bloody cloth between one's legs; and, more generally, when one is conscious of the primitive misery of being a body.

The Pilgrims believed beer was an unalloyed good, a 'good creature of God.' People who did not drink were suspect and 'crank-brained.

The so-called 'far right' defends the working class far more than the left does.

Most so-called 'black' people do not feel themselves at liberty to simply turn off or ignore their allotted racial designation, whether they would like to or not.

'Bleak House' is like the best soap you could ever hope to watch.

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.

In football in this country, we want to be able to check off every box of a soccer player. You have to be good at this and this and this. Because of our society, and the way that I grew up in soccer, I had to become well-rounded-but I also cherished the parts of me that made me special.

Crime is a product of social excess.

You have to be careful of social climbers. There are a lot of potholes out there.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

A mimetic crisis is when people become undifferentiated. There are no more social classes, there are no more social differences, and so forth.

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Opposition to social change is but one pillar of contemporary Republicanism.

What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract.

America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

We can't continue with this social democracy here in Brazil.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.