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Quotes About Society

Rape doesn't disturb the peace, it's already part and parcel of the city.
~ Virginie Despentes
Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété.
~ Virginie Despentes
Por qué nadie ha inventado el equivalente a Ikea para cuidar a los niños, el equivalente de Macintosh para hacer las tareas domésticas? La organización de la colectividad sigue siendo una prerrogativa masculina.
~ Virginie Despentes
America's obsession with defining homosexuality by its third syllable contrasts sharply with more human exercises from Europe.
~ Unknown
Hollywood is too busy trying to make old formulas hit the jackpot again to see the future. Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up with what's happening today. This will change only when it becomes financially profitable, and reality will never be profitable until society overcomes its fear and hatred of difference and begins to see that we're all in this together
~ Unknown
Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
American women are fools because they try to be everything to everybody.
~ Unknown
The gigantic will which Buddha and Jesus threw over the world, whence did it come? Whence came this accumulation of power? It must have been there through ages and ages, continually growing bigger and bigger, until it burst on society in a Buddha or a Jesus, even rolling down to the present day.
~ Vivekananda
The householder is the centre of life and society. It is a worship for him to acquire and spend wealth nobly
~ Vivekananda
When was the first I knew something about her in a world where men were sex, but women?—weren't we just supposed to get out of the way when we saw it coming?
~ Vivian Gornick
Witness: (...) This authoritarian leadership interfered with the personality and the personal feelings of the human being. The moment an individuality is absorbed into the concept of a collective body, every demand which is put to that individuality has to be absorbed into the concept of a collective system. Therefore, the demands of society are placed above every individual human being as an entity, and this entity, the human being, is completely used in the interests of that society.
~ Unknown
Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Postmodernizam obra?a pažnju na modernizam. U osnovi su modernizmi binarne reakcije, a postmodernizam polinarna reakcija.
~ Unknown
Thus, the twentieth century marks the turning-point from the old capitalism to the new, from the domination of capital in general to the domination of finance capital.
~ Unknown
We shall now proceed to construct the socialist order.
~ Unknown
The goal of Socialism is Communism.
~ Unknown
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
~ Unknown
Crime is a product of social excess.
~ Vladimir Lenin
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Every society is three meals away from chaos
~ Vladimir Lenin
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Por isso dizemos que para nós não há uma moral situada fora da sociedade humana; isso é um engano. Para nós, a moral está subordinada aos interesses da luta de classes do proletariado.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich: this is the democratism of capitalist society.
~ Vladimir Lenin