Quotes About Society

She had decided that the women wouldn't be wearing overly conservative, modest clothes. If a woman was up to no good, she would want to look like the majority.

The histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher class.

If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.

The only difference between the woman who sells her body through prostitution and she who sells herself in marriage is the price and duration of the contract.

Another problem doubtlessly lies in the feudal, reactionary, and passive attitude of many men who by their behavior continue to hold things back. They have no intention of jeopardizing the total control they have over women, either at home or in society in general. In the battle to build a new society, which is a revolutionary battle, the conduct of these men places them on the side of reaction and counterrevolution. For the revolution cannot triumph without the genuine emancipation of women.

Was it understood that the position of women in society means the condition of 52 percent of the Burkinabe population? Was it understood that this condition was the product of social, political, and economic structures, and of prevailing backward conceptions? And that the transformation of this position therefore could not be accomplished by a single ministry, even one led by a woman?

The woman leads a twofold existence indeed, the depth of her social ostracism being equally only by her stoic endurance. To live in harmony with the society of man, to conform with men's demands, she resigns herself to a self-effacement that is demeaning, she sacrifices herself.

Group eating was scarcely less embarrassing than bodily functions

Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have diminished those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

One of the consequences of such notions as 'entitlements' is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected the American society within the last fifty years.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.