Quotes About Society

Doing the right thing even if there's nothing in it for you is the difference between civilisation and the cesspit we're in today.

Bacteria is the only culture some people have.

You couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class. Very pretty. No one ever seemed quite as outraged when an ugly woman went missing.

The world stops for you when you're pretty. That's why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about them anymore. They cease to exist.

Men can always reinvent themselves," Laura said. "For women, once you're a mother, you're always a mother.

As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.

Men never have to be uncomfortable around women. Women have to be uncomfortable around men all of the time.

Anything's legal if you can get away with it." Maggie slammed the locker closed. "Welcome to the Atlanta Police Department.

This women's lib stuff works for rich girls, but all you've got going for you is your face and your figure. You need to take advantage of both before you lose them.

membership consisted solely of sitting around and grousing about how much things had changed for the worse. All they could talk about was the good old days—how much better things had been before the coloreds ruined everything. What they didn't acknowledge was that the things that made it bad for them made it better for everyone else.

it was better to be guilty and rich than innocent and poor.

She told Rick, "The world stops for you when you're pretty. That's why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about them anymore. They cease to exist.

because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her." "I

The world stops for you when you're pretty. That's why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive.

Used to be, only bikers and outlaws had tattoos. They were so commonplace now that they weren't even a statement. Unless the statement was, "Look, I'm like everybody else." Her

The world stops for you when you're pretty. That's why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better.

He meant the older blonde. 'She looks local.' She had the unmistakably trashy, bleach-blond air of a town-bred girl. Fake wallet aside, Allison Spooner appeared to be several rungs up on the social ladder. It didn't jibe that the two would be friends. 'Maybe Spooner had a drug problem?' Lena guessed. Nothing crossed class lines like methamphetamine

I guess you can go into all that feminist bullshit about how women should be able to do whatever they want to do and men should just get used to it, but . . ." Lena paused again. "It's like this," she said. "If I parked my car in the middle of Atlanta with the windows rolled down and the keys in the ignition, whose fault is it when somebody steals it?

The entire world gave men the responsibility for everything in it except for their dicks.

Faith gripped the steering wheel. "I hate rape cases. You don't throw a murder case to a jury and they ask, 'Well, was the guy really murdered or is he lying because he wants the attention? And what was he doing in that part of town? And why was he drinking? And what about all those murderers he dated before?

They can't walk down the street or order a coffee or stand on a corner without some idiot making a comment about how attractive they are. And then woman smile because it's easier than telling them to go fuck themselves. And less dangerous, because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.

The world stops for you when you're pretty. That's why woman spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they are attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags under their eyes or they put on a little weight and no one cares about them anymore. They cease to exist.

You can't throw a brick without hitting a heroin addict these days." She sighed. "If only we had more bricks.

these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.