Quotes About Society

Let us kill all the lawyers!

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

But being a boy is not a social disease.

The vast majority of American boys and girls are psychologically healthy. On the other hand, there is strong evidence that they are morally and academically undernourished.

I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

It is women who must clean up the mess men make, the mess everything makes:

ridiculous if not positively touched, filthy and mean-spirited to be so poor, vain to have airs and graces when so poor, superstitious to hold any religious beliefs, thickheaded to hold any political beliefs, hoity-toity to hold any esthetic beliefs, fustian to pretend to any education, when so poor.

From Tracey's cheerleaders I learned that in the new political correctness, female solidarity is out. A man in a dress is in. Among women who consider themselves feminists, a man who declares himself a transsexual trumps another woman any day.

If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?

La conséquence logique de la non-valeur de leur travail [aux femmes] est la course au beau mariage.

En tant que groupe effectivement soumis à ce rapport de production, elles constituent une classe, en tant que catégorie d'êtres humains destinés par naissance à entrer dans cette classe, elles constituent une caste.

Le grand danger qui guette la lutte des femmes aujourd'hui est celui-ci : que l'en deça de la question féministe soit présenté et vécu, comme son au-delà, permettant ou visant à permettre, l'économie...de la lutte tout simplement.

Une institution présente ne peut être expliquée par le simple fait qu'elle a existé dans le passé, même si ce passé est récent. Je ne nie pas que certains éléments du patriarcat d'aujourd'hui ressemblent à des éléments du « patriarcat » d'il y a cent ans : simplement cette durée - si tant est qu'il y ait durée, c'est-à-dire qu'il s'agisse bien de la même chose - ne constitue pas en elle-même un facteur explicatif. (p. 18)

Si un divorce est la fin d'un mariage en tant qu'institution. Il n'a pas été créé pour détruire le mariage puisqu'il ne serait pas nécessaire si le mariage n'existait pas. En ce sens, comme bien des auteurs l'ont montré, même la fréquence des divorces peut être interprétée non comme un signe que l'institution du mariage est malade, mais au contraire comme un signe qu'elle est florissante. (p. 122)

To me, there is very little sex in toilets.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

It is extremely unlikely that anyone in the twenty-first century does not have some consanguinity in his or her family within the last three hundred years. Yet according to Feldman, more than half of all human populations today still engage in consanguineous marriage, and up to 10 percent of all humans are in first- or second-cousin marriages.

Or, as Razib Khan, a geneticist and science blogger, put it, culture is chunky, whereas genes are creamy.

Norma, 1930s. "Whores make good wives, but madams don't. When you're making money in a whorehouse, that makes you independent and hard to get along with as a wife in the first place.

Cuál es el régimen político más inhumano? El que decreta el bien del hombre.

Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.

You see, that's what's so odd, how everyone thinks they're normal and the truth is no one in the world is normal at all. Isn't that wonderful?