Quotes About Society

Te has dado cuenta de que cuanto más inteligentes son los móviles, más tonta se vuelve la gente?

El único pecado que no se perdona en España es el de no tomar bando y resistirse a unirse a un rebaño u otro

Le moyen le plus efficace de rendre les pauvres inoffensifs est de leur apprendre à vouloir imiter les riches.

the level of barbarism in a society is measured by the distance it tries to create between women and books.

Los pueblos no se miran nunca en el espejo, decía siempre el padre de Clara, y menos con una guerra entre las cejas.

No hace falta que lo diga si le da vergüenza, porque los varones somos así y la testosterona no alienta al verso.

Novels, as everyone knew, were for women and for people who had nothing better to do.

Todo lo que ocurre en la sociedad, en la vida pública, es una escenificación, un simulacro de aquello que intentamos hacer pasar por realidad pero no lo es.

Vojska služi samo kako bi se otkrilo koliki je udio budala u stanovništvu, smatrao je. A to se otkrije ve? u prva dva tjedna, nisu potrebne dvije godine. Vojska, brak, Crkva i banka: ?etiri jaha?a apokalipse. (...)

Jorge siempre viviría a la sombra de su privilegio, entre algodones y fracasos. Penélope, la preciosa Penélope, era mujer y por tanto tesoro, no tesorero. Julián, que tenía alma de poeta, y por tanto de asesino, reunía las cualidades.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the poison with which capitalism blinds the—

Lo que hace falta en el mundo es más gente mala de verdad y menos cazurros limítrofes.

religión viene a ser un código moral que se expresa mediante leyendas, mitos o cualquier tipo de artefacto literario a fin de establecer un sistema de creencias, valores y normas con los que regular una cultura o una sociedad.

man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our 'ethical behavior,'" he argued. "It's pure biology.

Kakav smo to svijet napravili kad u njemu više ni neznalice ne mogu da budu sre?ne?

Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption and gossip.

Wariatem jest ten, kto ma si? za ca?kowicie normalnego, a za nienormalnych uwa?a ca?? reszt?.

We see witchcraft, finally, as a deeply ambivalent but violent struggle /within/ women as well as an equally ambivalent but violent struggle /against/ women.

Hester, in the dark conclusion of Hawthorne's brooding novel, reassumes the Puritan mantle….Hawthorne thus captures the catch-22 of feminism: the very woman who is able to envision a new order of living is, by the same token, unable, since the passion that enables her also adulterates her in the eyes of the Puritans. Released from goodness, she is imprisoned in badness, within the framework of the puritanical order. But her mind is free to question the order.

This knotted dilemma lies at the center of women's development. How can girls both enter and stay outside of, be educated in and then try to change, what for millennia has been a man's world?

The affirmation of female power contained in the Goddess symbol has both psychological and political consequences. Psychologically, it means the defeat of the view engendered by patriarchy that women's power is inferior and dangerous. This new 'mood' of affirmation of female power also leads to new 'motivations' it supports and undergirds women's trust in their own power and the power of other women in family and society.

Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.

When we think of the past we tend to assume that people were simpler in their functions, and shaped by forces that were primary and irreducible.

All human life seemed to be out there. And it was not a pretty sight.