Quotes About Society

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved -- the Great Society.

There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.

I think people who try to run their marriages according to other people's expectations are insane. It is quite hard enough to keep a marriage together till death do you part- which I think should be the aim, even if it can't always succeed- without trying to do it to please other people. A good marriage is whatever suits the participants, and our marriage suited us fine.

People don't want to be titillated or frightened. They don't want to think.

They have a saying among them: 'When whores are few, a boy will do.

In Skala warfare is a womanly thing.

It is a mistake to think that the national revolution is only political and economic. It is above all cultural. We stand in the first stormy phase of revolution.

Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?

Globalization, even if its nature and timing are still very much up for debate, has the salutary effect of challenging our most basic assumptions about space and time and therefore about society. The functioning of society depends on the regulation of space and time.

England of 1840 expected its young, affluent women to be literate and culturally astute, but it provided no real occupation for women with energy and vision. Fields of endeavor that were open to energetic, ambitious men—the military, finance, law, medicine, manufacture—were effectively closed to women.

everyone must take responsibility not only for their own family and community but also for the problems of the world, which include overpopulation, environmental degradation, and human rights violations.

no society matron would be so ill bred as to present an unmarried lady with a corpse. It was simply not good ton.

already a work of art. "Now let's go greet the dowager. I own, I'm unduly

in 212 A.D. making citizens of all freemen in the Empire

this beast epic is throughout a keen satire not only upon medieval society, but upon human nature in all ages.

the heartless practice of exposing unpromising infants

For example, the resemblance between the word for "bride" and the verb meaning "to steal away" in Indo-Germanic languages is taken as evidence of marriage by capture in early times

Therefore other bonds than those of political union must be found to hold society together and insure each individual some sort of order and protection.

Showing up underdressed is as smart as standing in the marketplace and shouting you've become an agent for the crown." "I'd hang myself first. I hate being a female." "Well until you sprout a beard and cock there you are.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Never judge yourself by the narrow standards of others. What we do together here is our business, nobody else's. Never, never doubt what we have just done is anything but love. Never let yourself be restricted by thoughts of what society would have you do, what it would accept or condemn. Please promise me that.

Some of the epidemic may overwhelm society as a physical expression of energy hysteria.