Quotes About Society

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

I have a very deep belief that all the problems in society are not because some people are bad and some people are good and we have to get rid of all the wrong people. Everything that we want to fix is because of a flaw in humans in general, something that humans together do incorrectly.

Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women.

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true.

When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.

Half the population of the entire world is women, and people are somehow shocked that this entire half is as capable as the other half.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.

Though it's safe to say there are a whole lotta American gals who agree with the core ideals of feminism, they are somehow nevertheless watching 'Say Yes to the Dress' by the millions.

Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

It must be really difficult to be normal.

Love is one of society's many socially accepted forms of madness.

Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.

In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.

Women think they can act like evil monsters from hell and be loved like a princess. It's as if the dragon and the witch was in them and not in the world.

Our society shuns people for being a bright light in the world. Sometimes if you are too futuristic people do not like how revolutionary you are

Earlier men craved for love from women, nowadays they ask everything except love!

One day I hope to hear "this is the world we live in" used in a positive light.