Quotes About Society

Books are left untouched. Fanaticism became our trait.. Now more than ever we let others feed our minds and we became the zombie society walking around without purpose, without care, without vision.

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

You can't eat beauty. It doesn't feed you.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

Beauty is a social necessity.

I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.

I refuse to believe that the processed beauty that I see around me is what I have to be.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.

Inner beauty is for amateurs.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.