Quotes About Society

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

Being a woman is hard work.

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption .