Quotes About Society

I remember how the book talked about the pressure to please and be perfect that every woman falls into and then projects onto her daughter. Nothing is ever good enough. No woman can ever outrun what she has to do. No one can be all things - a mother, a good partner, a lover, as well as a competitor in the workplace.

Our school was a microcosm of the world.

This Is My America is a piece of fiction; if this story were true, there wouldn't be an immediate happy ending for the Beaumonts. They would continue to live in the same society, combating racial prejudice and inequality – with all the disadvantages and stains of post-prison survival and recovery.

Of course, society, too, changes and develops in accordance with a certain law, not by man's own will. But the action of law in society is fundamentally different from that of the law of nature.

millions of spiritual people are seeking to change society by converting everyone else into becoming members of their specific group. In my humble opinion, this can never work.

I want to point out that the main reason our modern society cannot give us true and lasting self-esteem is that it cannot provide us with a meaningful understanding of what the self is.

Carl Jung, who talked about the "collective unconscious," but many others have developed similar ideas. The concept is that a group of people—even humanity as a whole—develop a collective state of consciousness that affects all people who are part of the group.

Mad' sounds dashing, daring and admirable when you hold the tattered flag in the midst of battle and expired natives lie all over the carpet with holes in 'em that you put there. 'Mad' is less impressive written on a form by a commissioner of lunacy as you're turned over to the hospitallers of St Mary of Bedlam to be dunked in ice water because your latest 'scrape' was running starkers down Oxford Street while gibbering like a baboon.

That is what capitalism is—a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains. And so we still hand over our lives' labor, under duress, to feed rulers who do no real work.

Here they were, on the only planetary surface on which you could walk freely, naked to the wind and the sun, and when they had a choice, they sat in boxes and stared at littler boxes, just as if they had no choice-as if they were in a space station-

I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was I supposed to say? That my father is the president, and my mother is his slave?

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.

Democracy is for the people by the people, no brothers no sisters no churches no titles!

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

Ignoring the crowd in the hall and her uncle. Stryder picked her up from her chair and carried her from the room, up the stairs until they reached her bedchamber. "What are you doing?" she asked. "I'm scandalizing you so that you will have no choice save to marry me in the morning." -Rowena & Stryder

A new energy coursed through society, thousands of feminists suddenly rising, suddenly angry, ready to strike against an image and treatment of women that no longer seemed remotely ironic or funny.

These people are just louts, and that's the truth

I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.

Are you saying that as long as you are capable of bearing children, you are expected to do nothing else?" Torres asked. "What else could we possibly do that any civilized society would regard more highly?" Wentin asked. Any