Quotes About Society

Ma ora non c'è più bisogno nemmeno dei paparazzi, sono gli stessi rappresentanti dello Stato a mostrarsi orgogliosamente alla nazione in modalità selfie. Siamo come voi, è il messaggio. Ma chi vi ha detto che dovete essere come noi?

La forma è sostanza e la forma della nostra democrazia e della nostra convivenza civile, di questi tempi, lascia a desiderare. E a questo punto non c'è più niente da ridere. Il «siamo come voi» va rispedito al mittente. Non siamo affatto così e reclamiamo il diritto a rappresentanti migliori.

I've always been able to see the savageness beneath the veneer of society. It's not so very far beneath the surface, no matter where you go.

Anthropology at that time was in transition, moving from the study of men dead and gone to the study of living people, and slowly letting go of the rigid belief that the natural and inevitable culmination of every society is the Western model.

Why with our emphasis on the individual are we still so blinded by the urge to conform?

you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them.

She claimed that conformity created maladjustment and tradition could turn psychopathic.

Who are we and were are we going? Why are we, with all our "progress" so limited in understanding and sympathy and the ability to give each other real freedom? Why with our emphasis on the individual are we still so blinded by the urge to conform?

At first, with my boyfriend in college, I believed it, too. Later, I thought I was just choosing delusional men. Now I understand it's how boys are raised to think, how they are lured into adulthood. I've met ambitious women, driven women, but no woman has ever told me that greatness was her destiny.

squat there and think about how you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that's hard to unravel.

And this led to another round of mapping as we separated men from women, finding that while the male ethos usually represented the culture at large, within a culture women offset the ideal.

They do this with women. Their teachers, their friends' mothers. Well, you saw it at the restaurant. They sort of throw themselves at them. It breaks my heart because what is it going to look like in ten years with girls their age? All that neediness.

Vailala Madness

I think about how you get trained early on as woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. Sometimes you mix the two in a terrible tangle that's hard to unravel.

Anthropological contribution, they called it in the OSS. A generous epithet for scientific prostitution.

Now I understand it's how boys are raised to think, how they are lured into adulthood. I've met ambitious women, driven women, but no woman has ever told me that greatness was her destiny.

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.

Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.

We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.

The Eighties proved we don't need liberals.

You could afford your house without your government if it weren't for your government.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.