Quotes About Society

Politics may one day be found to be so vulgar as to be described, along with all party and daily journalism, under the heading: 'Prostitution of the Intel lect'.

Nietzsche tells us that modern consciousness is sick: "Art is reduced to mere amusement, and governed by empty concepts.

It's the nature of our society that I'm considered unworthy of huge financial reward for that risk. But what can be earned is a certain nobility—not in the sense of aristocratic status but in the sense of striving for quality and dignity of behavior and living.

Shelton was violent in his proclamations and in his philosophy, and likely violent in his home life. "Somebody told me, 'Well, why don't you get a divorce?' Mrs. Shelton reflected in 2014. "You didn't get divorced back then. No matter what went on. Women got beat up all the time. Like it was their fault.

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

William Graham Sumner, "That It Is Not Wicked to Be Rich," in What Social Classes Owe Each Other, 1884

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.

A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.

You and bloody Lord Jack Redgrave!

It bothers you, doesn't it?" Mia said suddenly. "I think you can't imagine. Why anyone would choose a different life from the one you've got. Why anyone might want something other than a big house with a big lawn, a fancy car, a job in an office. Why anyone would choose anything different than what you'd choose.

Everyone sees race, Lex," said Moody. "The only difference is who pretends not to.

Because more than anything, her mother had wanted to stand out; because more than anything, her father had wanted to blend in. Because those things had been impossible. In

A part of her wanted to stay home, to simply be with her children, but her own mother had always scorned those women who didn't work. "Wasting their potential," she had sniffed. "You've got a good brain, Elena. You're not just going to sit home and knit, are you?" A modern woman, she always implied, was capable—nay, required—to have it all.

American Terror gives an

The Three Pillars of PACT. Outlaws promotion of un-American values and behavior. Requires all citizens to report potential threats to our society. And there, beneath Sadie's finger: Protects children from environments espousing harmful views.

Was she the bird trying to batter its way free, or was she the cage?

What the news calls people who protest PACT: Seditious subversives. Traitorous Chinese sympathizers. Tumors on American society.

I feel guilty looking at those "People of Walmart" photos you see on the Internet. It's not cool to make fun of pitiful people. You really think anyone who wasn't batshit crazy would walk out of the house in a camouflage mankini and a Confederate flag ball cap to go buy some new furnace filters? No, he's cray-cray.

While it may seem a bit antithetical to use quite so many "naughty words" in an etiquette book, I can assure you that I would never use curse words for shock value alone or to prop up a needy joke. We live in a world in which one Real Housewife of New Jersey seriously admonished another to "show some fuckin' class!" Enough said.

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