Quotes About Society

He says he needs mothering." "....Even if he didn't need mothering, which after all is only another way of saying he needs a slave.

In today's pick-and-mix culture, evolutionary psychology proposes itself as yet another possible opiate for the people. Freud and Marx are dead – so long live Darwin.

It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

Saccha hai yahan kangal, to Beimaan hai malamal (Here the honest person is poor, the corrupt people are rich)

California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.

Individual possession is the great entering wedge, which has split society into eight hundred million fragments.... It virtually, practically, and theoretically denies the brotherhood of man.

A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to

Men den, som skall bli diktare, är ingenting alls annat än ett åtlöje för Gud och människor, förrän han redan blivit erkänd och berömd. Därför måste han under alla de långa läroåren hänga en falsk skylt över sin dörr och låtsas sysselsätta sig med något som människorna anser aktningsvärt.

What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.

It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one," Vivi says. "Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.

After all, I'm already a murderer. No one really expects a murderer to stop killing.

Too often, people acted like her curves were some engraved invitation.

how am I supposed to be worse than the folk ?

Oh for goodness sake. Why do boys always have to talk about their feelings all the time? It's so gross. - Tamara

Normal people," they'd say with a shudder. "Normal people think they're happy, but that because they're too dumb to know any different. Better to be miserable and interesting, right, kiddo?

It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one,' Vivi says. 'Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.

Race doesn't exist. Skin color exists. Hair and eye color are real. Body type varies from individual to individual, as does tooth shape and color, the form of fingernails, and the amount and texture of body hair. But 'race' is a phantom conjured up by people no different from each other than purebred Cocker spaniels are. Race is a lie, and the people who conjure by it, no matter their color or their politics, are liars.

Race is a lie, and the people who conjure by it, no matter their color or their politics, are liars.