Quotes About Society

But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.

I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.

In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

It was somehow degrading, craving someone so... voraciously - another good calendar word - just because he was physically beautiful. I hadn't thought that was something women did, either.

There is plenty of justice on television, but not so much in the real world. Maybe that's why so many of us like television so much.

Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us.

She had almost certainly poisoned her perfidious former lover, a clerk, so she could marry into her own respectable upper-middle-class milieu without the clerk's revealing their physical intimacy.

Dixie people wouldn't have listened to a black woman

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.

We have become a society that lacks empathy. Are we teaching empathy? The Internet desensitises, too.

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.

I love it when a man knows his place - right, ladies?

I'd rather wear black than bright florals like most fat ladies do.

When people think of socialites, they generally think of ladies of style whose purpose is to get their pictures taken a lot; girls who love social activities and being on the society 'circuit.'

I don't feel like a first lady.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Down South, there was the old 'ladies-don't-do-such-things' way of thinking. You couldn't be a lady and a good athlete at the same time.

The biggest thing about 'Lady Macbeth' is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn't be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.

The life of the President's First Lady would not have been for me. And I don't know how I would have been as a housewife.

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.