Quotes About Society

Great people discuss eras, average people discuss trends, and small people discuss labels.

In the hearts of men lies both good and evil. The two coexist. Some men become good, and others become evil. It is the way of this world.

Simply smiling and being friendly is a way to bring flavor into a tasteless society.

Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets.

A quanto si dice, quando alla fine venne scostato il velo, mia madre sorrise. E fu così che mio padre capì che era idiota. Le spose non sorridono. Qando partorì me, un maschio, mio padre mi sfilò dalle sue braccia e mi passò a una levatrice. Mossa a compassione, la donna diede a mia madre un cuscino da stringere al mio posto. Lei lo abbracciò. Non parve notare alcuna differenza.

They might permit a king to burn their fields or rape their daughters, as long as payment was made. But you did not touch a man's sons.

Aquiles se sonrojó como si le hubieran abofeteado. Una cosa era llevar un vestido, impelido por la necesidad, y otra muy distinta que todos lo supieran. Nuestro pueblo reservaba los más feos apelativos para los hombres que actuaban como mujeres; semejantes insultos habían provocado la pérdida de muchas vidas.

It was one thing to wear a dress out of necessity, another thing for the world to know of it. Our people reserved their ugliest names for men who acted like women; lives were lost over such insults.

Tidak setiap orang yang berlaku proletar adalah seorang proletar, dan tidak setiap orang yang berperilaku baik adalah seorang aristokrat

1984 is a great fiction novel to read but it seems like it is becoming the reality we are currently living under more and more each day.

Losing my virginity was a career move.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

Visibility makes possible, but it also disciplines: disciplines gender, disciplines genre.)

a culture committed to bleeding the humanities to death, along with any other labors of love that don't serve the god of capital: the spectacle of someone who likes her pointless, pervers work and gets paid - even paid well - for it.

It's the binary of normative/transgressive that's unsustainable, along with the demand that anyone live a life that's all one thing.

I would also like to cop easily to my abundant privilege - except that the notion of privilege as something to which one could "easily cop," as in "cop to once and be done with," is ridiculous. Privilege saturates, privilege structures.

Her grandmother keeps announcing that Esme will never find a husband if she doesn't change her ways. Yesterday, when she said it at breakfast, Esme replied, good, and was sent to finish her meal in the kitchen.

Please.' Esme stood. She clasped her hands together to keep them still. 'Miss Murray says I could get a scholarship and after that perhaps university and—' 'There would be no profit in it,' her father said, as he settled himself back into his armchair. My daughters will not work for a living.

younger women as they pass us in the street, with their cigarettes, their makeup, their tight-seamed dresses, their tiny handbags, their smooth, washed hair, and we turn away, we put down our heads, we keep on pushing the pram up the hill.