Quotes About Society

In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.

I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?

I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.

Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

Labeling people single parents, for example, when they may in fact be co-parenting - either with an unmarried other parent in the home or with an ex-spouse in a joint custody situation - stigmatizes their children as the products of 'single parenthood' and makes the uncounted parent invisible to society.

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

Fame is a very unnatural human condition.

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

Japanese of my generation try to get through life without stepping on anyone's toes; in some ways that's unnatural and stressful. The yakuza are different: They live short lives but live and die on their own terms - it's exciting to portray that.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.

What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.

Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going to be on generating more jobs that will make food-stamps unnecessary for them.

I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

If I go out with my girlfriends, no one has an issue, but if I put up a post with a male friend or I'm seen chatting with a co-star, there is unnecessary speculation. What wrong am I doing that I'm being treated this way?

We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology.

In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.

GDP excludes care work and other unpaid work, most of which falls to women and girls in rich and in poor countries alike.