Quotes About Society

All right, let's consider some history here. I see a number of girls are wearing pants. This used to be frowned upon. In 1938, Helen Hulick was jailed for wearing slacks -- put behind bars. Do you think society should have the right to jail or punish you for what you choose to wear?

there are women who devote themselves entirely to their families, their husbands and children, and give up cultivating their femininity. Mother rebelled against that paradigm...[Mr. Gregory's Mother]

Non metterti a fare la parte della principessa sdegnata, la criticò Zaira. Sai benissimo che queste feste sono tutte uguali. Servono ai padroni di casa per mettersi in vetrina, agli ospiti per mostrare ricchezze lecite e illecite, ai cronisti per riempire i loro giornali che la gente leggerà avidamente.

Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

Religions are social sciences which help to maintain culture and tradition and support the lawful structure of human society. Yoga

It's hard to imagine what the Bronte sisters' lives would've been like had they been men. Different things would've been expected of them, and maybe they wouldn't have ended up writing because they would've been packed off to do something else.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.

Certainly another Brad Sherman might be annoying, but it isn't something society doesn't know how to deal with. But a new level of human being is something else.

I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about to become something else, they find themselves in Shakespeare.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.

No-one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held America together in its secure and sometime shifting grip first gave way.

Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom.

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

'Chip Away' is somewhat of a rail against cable news and divisive agendas... all for the almighty dollar.

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.

One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?