Quotes About Society

Being the cool girl feels like shit.

Why are we essentially outsourcing the thing that defines us as people?" Turkle asked in the video. Her question made me wonder: Was it that people couldn't tolerate being alone or that they couldn't tolerate being with other people?

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

Really?" Catherine didn't look at all appalled. "What was it like to wear trousers in public?" "Quite . . . liberating, actually." "I daresay, I think we wear far too many layers of clothes." "I agree," both men said at once. Olivia and Catherine giggled like young girls.

You married me thinking I would force myself on you?" "I married you knowing that women have very little say in how they are treated.

A duke must have a duchess. In my heart I already have one, and she is you. Whether or not it is sanctioned by the church or recognized by Society, you are my duchess.

I'm well aware that I do not belong with the aristocracy." "Yet here you are with an aristocrat." "You and I both know, Your Grace, that marriage is not what you have in mind." His eyes darkened as his gaze traveled from her upswept hair to the toes of her recently polished shoes. "No. Marriage is not what I have in mind.

But thinking back on all those times, I had this odd, inescapable feeling that society thought it was some kind of sin to be deaf.

Everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. - as spoken by Lou Holtz, former Notre Dame Coach

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on 'em. That's what the Statue of Bigotry says

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

Os indivíduos são sempre-já sujeitos.

Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.

I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living in one!... The private schools are all jammed with long waiting lists; the clubs -- all the old clubs -- are jammed with long waiting lists today; the harbors are clogged with yachts; there has never been a more material society than the one we live in today.... Where is this 'vanished world' they talk about? I don't think the critics have looked out the window!

No! It's not your fault. You belong to the last generation of women who have been brought up to use their sex appeal to further their ambition.

Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into the colonial colleges.

All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

There was something vulgar, even a little improper, in a woman like Sabine who at forty-six looked thirty-five. At

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Perhaps the postponement in modern culture of the historically relevant challenges of adolescents

Humans, having the most complex brains and intricate society, have the most prolonged period of total dependency of any species (Cacioppo & Berntson, 2002). Compared with the young of other primates, human babies are born quite early relative to the maturity of their brains. In fact, the first 3 months of life have sometimes been referred to as the fourth trimester. If we followed the pattern typical for other primates, we would stay inside our mothers for 24 months (Gould

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.