Quotes About Society

Well, we want such different things from men. You earnestly want someone who will help you reform society." Mary smiled. "Whereas you . . . ?" ". . . just want a tall man and a stiff drink. You could even swap the adjectives." Mary

Todo mundo tem uma opinião, não é mesmo? Talvez seja isso o que está errado com este país.

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There was no ritual when one fell apart, society preferring to wait until one was lost entirely. The

I figure if those things were in God's jurisdiction, he'd do something different about them. But they aren't. Those are in our jurisdiction.

Man, what kind of a fucked-up world is this? You should have to be a lot more than decent to be a kid's hero.

Defense lawyers had sought to have the bite-mark evidence barred from the trial on the grounds that it is scientifically unreliable. The judge's ruling was "contrary to the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community," said Chris Fabricant, director of strategic litigation for the Innocence Project. "It's a victory for the Flat Earth Society."

Miguel Fernandez was super enthusiastic about everything. He was also president of the school's Library Aide Society. "Hey, Kyle—you know what they say about libraries?" "Uh, not really." "They have something for every chapter of your life!" While Kyle groaned, the second bell rang.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979): "Today's novel feature is the flattening out of the antagonism between culture and social reality through the obliteration of the oppositional, alien, and transcendent elements in the higher culture by virtue of which it constituted another dimension of reality.

Did they like being maids & butlers? Before you answer this consider everything you've ever read about English history after Robin Hood and before he Who. Your choices were: serving, being served, being killed by Jack the Ripper. So, the employee class made the best of it and got with the program. It was indoor work, after all. And as a wise man once observed, "You're gonna hafta serve somebody." (Bob Dylan, C. 1497-1580). And it beat mining.

Why do people think that we're degraded when we're examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?

Dear Dick, I wrote in one of many letters, what happens between women now is the most interesting thing in the world because it's least described

Cause shame was what we always felt, me and all my girlfriends, for expecting sex to breed complicity. ("Complicity is like a girl's name," writes Dodie Bellamy).

Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?

Richard seemed to like our morning conversations about Brecht and Althusser and Andre Gorz, but later on he turned the group against me for being too cerebral and acting like a boy. And weren't all these passionate interests and convictions just evasions of a greater truth, my cunt? I was an innocent, a de-gendered freak, 'cause unlike Liza Martin, who was such a babe she refused to take her platforms off for Kundalini Yoga, I hadn't learned the trick of throwing sex into the mix.

Why should women settle to think and talk about just femaleness when men were constantly transcending gender?

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

He's cutting the heart out of the American dream to own a home and have a good job ... and still he's popular Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.

You don't pay taxes–they take taxes.

Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.