Quotes About Society

Pride and Prejudice' is set in the early 19th century. At that time, women had the legal status of children. A daughter was the property of her father until marriage, when her ownership passed to her husband.

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.'

China is a very brand-intensive society. The reason that brands are so very important is that they are a way to signal social status.

Davos is probably the world's most elite society, but it dresses itself up as a non-elite event. Don't be fooled. You must wear a specially coloured badge, which shrieks your status to others.

Money has no religion. Money does not belong to any class or creed. Neither it belongs to a gender nor an age. Money decides fate. Money also decides status. Money buys you food and money buys a basic necessity like water too.

There are centuries worth of conditioning telling us that the thing that gives women status or importance is beauty.

I only want to use my status as a comic actor to bring about a difference to society.

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

The avoidance of explicit ethical judgments leads political scientists to one overriding implicit value judgment - that in favor of the political status quo as it happens to prevail in any given society.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.

It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha' politics.

People are scared to speak out against the status quo: their jobs and livelihoods, they believe, are at risk.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

Playing Hamidabai was an eyeopener to how much we've lost in the evolution of our culture and society. In many ways, she mirrors my personal life journey, as a woman fighting to stay true to her passion despite all odds.

The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.

Stay-at-home mothers, working mothers, people are very tough on each other. I don't see that in the world of men. I don't see working men who have children, and those who don't, judging each other. I think there's a different category of expectation.

Working moms elevate themselves above stay-at-home moms, and stay-at-home moms try to put down working moms. It's a war in which both sides are trying to put the other one down.

Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.

Stay-at-home mothers are building our future. And I feel like if we had more of them, our society would not be in such a decline.