Quotes About Society

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

Te has preguntado alguna vez si son los monstruos los que provocan la guerra, o si es la guerra la que genera monstruos

Kitchens and women were both subjects that simply did not intrigue him.

Why should we have to disappear just because men are animals?

Staring at herself in the mirror, she found that she'd lost the ability to see herself through her own eyes. She was only what humans would see. Not a girl or a woman or someone in between. They wouldn't see her loneliness or fear or courage, let alone her humanity. They would see only obscenity. Calamity.

Har du någonsin frågat dig om det är monster som skapar krig eller kriget som skapar monster? (s. 115).

How does it feel living life every day with such attractive faces in a place where women are forced to take responsibility even for the worst outcomes that spring from other people's lusts?

Many people, even in this country, have material problems because they are concerned for only themselves. Even though society offers many good situations, they are still in the preta realm. I think so, isn't it? You are living in America but you're still living in the preta realm—of the three lower realms, the hungry ghost realm; you are still living in the hungry ghost realm.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

I'm known for snatching purses, and bombing churches, I get more pussy by accident than most niggas get on purpose.

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch--not opposition, but indifference--in society.

At every step we take to gain the approbation of the wise, we lose something in the estimation of the vulgar.

Murmuring gentlyOver fraises du bois,"I'm so ashamed of being white."

I, too, sing America.I am the darker brother.

Question and Answer Durban, Birmingham, Cape Town, Alabama, Johannesburg, Watts, The earth around Struggling, fighting, Dying--for what? A world to gain. Groping, hoping, Waiting--for what? A world to gain. Dreams kicked asunder, Why not go under? There's a world to gain. But suppose I don't want it, Why take it? To remake it.

Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.

I could point out that that's not a dress, that's underwear, but I doubt it would be in my best interest." "Need I remind you," said Sebastian, "That that is my sister?" "Most brother's would be delighted to see such a clean-cut gentleman as myself squiring their sister's about town.

Well, you know what they say," said James. "All the best men are either married or Silent Brothers.

When a decision like that is made by a government, it emboldens those who are already prejudiced to speak their deepest thoughts of hate. They assume they are simply brave enough to say what everyone really thinks.

It's like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing." "So, exactly like a cotillion," said Simon.