Quotes About Society

We spent a good part of the twentieth century trying out various forms of revolution, from Marxism to savage capitalism, ranging through each and every intermediate shading. Our hope that a change in government can improve our luck is like hoping to win the lottery: totally without rational foundation.

Creyeron que los militares iban a «limpiar» el país. «Se terminó la delincuencia, no hay muros pintarrajeados con graffiti, todo está limpio y gracias al toque de queda los maridos llegan temprano a la casa», me dijo una amiga.

Girls are denied the right to be angry and to thrash about.

Why had that woman tried to give me her baby? It was a girl. No one wants a girl! the driver answered.

The idea that everyone was equal was fine as a theoretical slogan, he said, but in practice it was an aberration. We are not equal in the eyes of

As a rightist senator pontificated, "When democracy gets democratic, it doesn't work at all.

Procuró atribuir su malestar al momento del sermón del padre Restrepo cuando la apuntó para referirse a los fariseos que pretendían legalizar a los bastardos y al matrimonio civil, desarticulando a la familia, la patria, la propiedad y la Iglesia, dando a las mujeres la misma posición que a los hombres, en abierto desafío a la ley de Dios

Antes se alcanzaba la edad adulta a los veinte, la madurez a los cuarenta y la vejez empezaba a los cincuenta. Hoy la adolescencia se extiende hasta bien entrados los treinta o cuarenta, la madurez sucede alrededor de los sesenta y la vejez empieza recién a los ochenta. Se ha estirado la juventud para complacer a esos

Las sociedades más atrasadas y miserables son aquellas en las que las mujeres están sometidas. Si se ayuda a una mujer, sus hijos no se mueren de hambre, y si las familias progresan, se beneficia la aldea, pero esta verdad tan evidente es ignorada en el mundo de la filantropía, donde por cada dólar que se destina a programas de mujeres, se entregan veinte a los de hombres

pero ese tema era tabú en aquellos tiempos de hipocresía colectiva.

for defending gangsters, and

They all agreed that under communism they had been just as poor, but at least there was food and security, whereas independence had brought them only ruin and abandonment.

A lot of women in New Zealand feel like they have to make a choice between having babies and having a career or continuing their career. So is that a decision you feel you have to make or that you feel you've already made?

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

It's hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn't in other places.

'SNL' came out in the '70s. It's a different zeitgeist. It's hard to re-create it, just as it would be hard to do a black-and-white noir film now. The culture's different.

To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.

We are part of the zeitgeist, and we are communicating in a human, real way.

Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, we'd like to hope that, when push comes to shove, we can do the right thing. I think as long as there is that hope in our society and in the zeitgeist of superheroes, Superman will be relevant.

Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.

I think I might be hitting the zeitgeist. All around you, you're looking at beautiful people that have been turned into robots. Maybe the eye is craving a little upper lip fur.

I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.

Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.