Quotes About Society

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

American manners are different than British manners.

People internalise marketing.

If we make all of the people good, markets will be good. If markets are bad, which they are, that means people are bad, which they are. Want good markets? Change the people.

Markets are really people.

It was a mistake not to marry at the right age. When you get older, even men aren't interested in you.

It's not just about being free to marry who you want, you now want to have men using women's bathrooms.

If an alien came down from Mars and saw us all taking selfies and the like, I think it'd up and leave. It'd think we were all mad.

He seemed to be an eternal on-sale item in the matrimonial market that everybody bypassed for the fancier merchandise.

Is the world really a better place now that nothing is considered bad? People just do what they want, with anyone. How is that different from what animals do in the wild?

What's the good of being civilized, that's what I'd like to know? It just means other people can break the rules and you can't.

Lettie, as the second daughter, was never likely to come to much

horrible horseless carriage. The invisible watchers

Women do not count," said the Sultan. "Therefore, it is impossible to be unfair to them.

How do you retain a spirit of affection and humor in a crazed, homicidal, unpredictable society?

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in three women will experience a sexual assault in her lifetime and one in six males, yet we don't speak of it, even in our churches!

Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation. But public education is not 'broken.' Public education is in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it.

We are an impatient culture and an impatient electorate.

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Was mir vor allen Dingen unbestreitbar vorkommt, ist die Tatsache, das ein solches Ausbleiben des Klassengefühls eine bürgerliche Kindheit kennzeichnet. Die Herrschenden merken nicht, dass ihre Welt nur einer partikularen, situierten Wahrheit entspricht (so wie ein Weißer sich nicht seines Weißseins und ein Heterosexueller sich nicht seiner Heterosexualität bewusst ist).

The fascist synthesis did not view Italy as a society divided by class but rather as a unified country in which all sectors of society could come together. The fascists replaced the old Marxist divide between unproductive capitalists and productive labor with the single category of the productive nation.

The progressives and socialists advanced their own dream in opposition to the American dream.

Of course, the whole thing is based on lies. Let's start with racism, which has become increasingly rare in a society where it is now customary, if not obligatory, to tiptoe around blacks and other people of color, to express deference if not subservience to their demands and to put up with behavior that would be utterly intolerable if anyone else did it. We live in a society of black and brown privilege, yet all that we hear about is "white privilege.