Quotes About Society

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?

Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

If food were free, why work?

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.

Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

I'm sure that blondes have more fun, but I think that as a brunette I might work more.