Quotes About Society

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

What does it say about the world we live in, if an adult man is told how and whom he should love?

Health and education are always issues.

There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it, the etiquette is that you must begin in ignorance & persevere in the face of knowledge, & though I naturally believe that this is profoundly wrong it's not nice to go around constantly offending people.

and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it. They probably didn't, anyway. But if they did they wouldn't admit it.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

if patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.

the core narrative of how society is organized and how it is reciprocally explained by its inhabitants with reference to a set of collective values deemed appropriate to underpin it.

a pardon did not mean a simple return to society, it meant entry to another penal regime, that of conditional liberty (libertad vigilada) – an exceptionally punitive form of parole via which the regime's control was extended further.

freedom of movement in 1940s Spain existed only as an exceptional political or social privilege: very few ordinary people escaped surveillance in a society in which travel anywhere required a safe conduct or pass from the authorities.

It is no wonder that so many children preferred life on the streets, for street children forced into petty theft and prostitution were also a singular phenomenon of 1940s Spain

The military rebels and their civilian supporters were thus redefining "the enemy" as entire sectors of society that were perceived as "out of control

to "have ideas" (tener ideas), thinking for oneself being considered doubly reprehensible in women.

the story of how "Francoism" was built – bottom up as a repressive, carceral society – as well as top down as a political regime.

emergent populist conservatism.

memory movement of the 1990s.

The Republic continued to behave as a democracy, albeit one at war and in the most difficult of conditions.

Franco's coalition was driven by a very particular desire: that of both the colonial military elite and its civilian supporters to subject social change to court martial and restore their ideal of a static society.

red" women had forfeited their right to nourish their young,

If you can forget the stultifying concept that there are appropriate years for certain endeavors (like getting married) and appropriate days for being gay and merry (like Saturday nights) and use these times without embarrassment or self-pity to do something creative and constructive, I believe half your single girl battle is over.

If you're not a sex symbol, you're in trouble.

I would rather they did not speak of it at all, until I am out of the district." Mrs. Bennet was all amazement. "Until you are out of the district, child! What else are people to speak of when they hear you are to marry a man so rich, so highly placed in society, so... rich?

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.