Quotes About Society

Abuse of women by men is so rampant that, unless people can somehow make it women's own fault, they are forced to take on a number of uncomfortable questions about men and about much of male thinking.

Our society should not buy into the abusive man's claim that holding him accountable is an act of cruelty.

Pointing fingers at other countries can be a way to ignore the serious problems in our own.

An abuser can be thought of not as a man who is a "deviant," but rather as one who learned his society's lessons too well, swallowing them whole.

Oh, Mom, what's 'normal' mean, anyway? 'Normal' is whatever we make it.

War-waging and peace-making are as old as ants and apes.

We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to refuse to define our individuality by our presumed ability to do whatever we want.

Los chicos malos ya no roban bancos, ahora los compran.

el imaginario social condona al victimario y se centra en las víctimas como coadyuvantes". La psicóloga asegura que los pederastas como Succar Kuri "no son monstruos ni enfermos; son hombres con una patología social que, en pleno uso de sus facultades y de su poder, deciden planear, protegerse y ejecutar sistemáticamente un delito, cuidando todos los flancos para no ser detenidos".

The article ends, however, with a cautionary emendation of the opening statement about affection: nowadays many people make love, it says, who do not love each other, or even have any affection for each other, and whether or not this is a good thing we do not yet know.

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

Mulher sem homem acaba tão complexada, tão infeliz. Com homem também, tenho ganas de dizer-lhe e dar-lhe o espelho na mão.

Literatura, bah. As mulheres já estão encontrando sua medida. Eles virão em seguida, acho que no futuro só vai haver andróginos - digo e fico rindo.

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.