Quotes About Society

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.

If you are a young, white, straight man in today's society, you are in trouble.

As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man.

Seriously I just don't get why straight people are so afraid of the fact that gay people can get married.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp.

I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.

It really is a strange time we're living in, when saying 'Don't kill people' is considered a radical point of view.

The media do strange things.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.

Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger.

Kindness towards strangers is rare in North Korea. There is a risk to helping others. The state made accusers and informers of us all.

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.