Quotes About Society

Didn't you hear about the study that came out of England? The smarter you are, the less likely you are of getting married. The dumb girls are getting the guys.' 'So, you say that you give facials for a living, instead of that you're a lawyer who graduated with top honors from Harvard Law School?' 'Yes, and it works.

It was a rare moment in American history—unprecedented—when educated women were not only wanted but competed for.

The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken.

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

Some times the best place to hide... is in other peoples prejudices

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.

Remember, about thirty-six years ago you and I met a girl named _____? She was symmetrical and well spoken. Not only that, but her father owned a chain of liquor stores, and she was reported as conveniently nymphomaniacal. Yet, as I recall, neither you nor I especially wanted her phone number. Maybe she was too wondrously neat, or maybe she was too predictably available, or maybe she gave the impression of being so vastly prized that we couldn't prize her at all.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people ... To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Grant, in his message, has remembered all classes and conditions of men to Congress,

When men age they're called sophisticated. When women age they ain't called at all.

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

They are fighters. They love peace. They are unafraid of war. They intend nothing less than to destroy existing capitalist society and to take possession of the whole world. If the law of the land permits, they fight for this end peaceably, at the ballot box. If the law of the land does not permit, and if they have force meted out to them, they resort to force themselves.

Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.

I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me.

What makes sense in the ivy-covered ivory tower may be shrill extremism in America's neighborhoods and workplaces.

Some people talk to themselves, and some people write, and somehow society has decided that one gets committed and one gets a paycheck.

There are many things the government can't do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.